High Tc Superconductors and Related Transition Metal Oxides (eBook)

Special Contributions in Honor of K. Alex Müller on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday

Annette Bussmann-Holder, Hugo Keller (Herausgeber)

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2007 | 2007
XXI, 321 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-71023-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents theoretical as well as experimental articles focused on recent new results in high temperature superconductivity. All contributors are high ranking scientists who have done major work to enhance the understanding of this phenomenon. A few articles deal with ferroelectricity and its applications. The book is dedicated to Prof. Dr. K. Alex Müller on his 80th birthday. During his scientific career he made major advances in the understanding of ferroelectricity.

Inhalt

Preface 7
List of Authors 13
Contents 19
Superlight Small Bipolarons: A Route to Room Temperature Superconductivity 22
Mott Limit in High- Tc Cuprates 37
Perovskites and Their New Role in Oxide Electronics 49
Van Hove Scenario for High Tc Superconductors 55
Possible Jahn–Teller Effect and Strong Electron–Phonon Coupling in Beryllium Hydride 62
The Competing Interactions inMultiferroics and Their Possible Implications for HTSs 75
Site-Selective Oxygen-Isotope Exchange in YBa2Cu3O7–x 92
Coexistence of Order–Disorder and Displacive Behavior of KH2PO4 and Analogs from Electron Paramagnetic Resonance 102
The High Tc Cuprates as Nanoscale Inhomogeneous Superconductors 115
Essential Role of the Lattice in theMechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity 118
Shared Fascinations 145
Admixture of an s-Wave Component to the d-Wave Gap Symmetry in High- Temperature Superconductors 149
Electronic Inhomogeneities and Pairing from Unscreened Interactions in High- Tc Superconductors 156
Interplay of Jahn-Teller Physics andMott Physics in Cuprates 170
20 years High Pressure Materials Synthesis Group Activity After Discovery of High- Tc Superconductors 179
Two-Gap Superconductivity in the Cuprate Superconductor La1.83Sr0.17CuO4 188
Skyrmions in Lightly Doped Cuprates? 202
Lone Pairs, Bipolarons and Superconductivity in Tellurium 211
Carbon Based Superconductors 222
Band Renormalization Effect in Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10+d 236
How Large is the Intrinsic Flux Noise of aMagnetic Flux Quantum, of Half a Flux Quantum and of a Vortex- Free Superconductor? 246
Lattice andMagnetic Excitations in Relation to Pairing and the Formation of Jahn– Teller Polaron Textures in Cuprates 252
Lattice Effects in High-Temperature Superconducting Cuprates Revealed by X- ray Absorption Spectroscopy 261
Specific Heat of Na0.3CoO2·1.3H2O, a Novel Superconductor with Structural and Electronic Similarities to the High-Tc Cuprates 267
Quantum Superconductor-Metal Transition in Al, C doped MgB2 and Overdoped Cuprates? 277
Ferroelectric-on-Superconductor Devices 285
Electronic Phase Separation and Unusual Isotope Effects in La2–xSrxCuO4 Observed by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance 294
Some Science History with a Mutual Connection 310
Reminiscences of Collaboration in 1986 318
Coupled Order Parameters in Magneto-Ferrolectrics 322
Author Index 327

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.3.2007
• Zusatzinfo: XXI, 321 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Elektrodynamik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Schlagworte: Electronics • ferroelectricity • HTS • Inorganic Chemistry • Superconductivity • Superconductor
• ISBN-10: 3-540-71023-X / 354071023X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-71023-3 / 9783540710233