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Role of Local Lattice Deformation in High Temperature Superconductivity

  • 1. Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (United States)
  • 2. Superconductivity Research Laboratory, ISTEC, Tokyo (Japan)
  • 3. Departmet of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo (Japan)
  • 4. Department of Physics, Kobe University, Kobe (Japan)

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The results of pulsed neutron scattering studies on YBa2Cu4O8 and of x-ray diffuse scattering studies of single crystal La2-xSrxCuO4 are discussed. They convincingly demonstrate local deviations from the crystallographic structure, and indicate that the dynamics of at least a part of charge carriers are slow enough for the lattice to follow. The observations are explained in terms of the two-carrier model. In this model one type of carriers are heavy, dressed by phonons and possibly by Cu spins, exhibiting a polaronic character. These heavy carriers co-exist with light carriers which provide conductivity. Superconductivity could arise from the interplay between the two. (author)

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Proceedings of the International Workshop on Anharmonic Properties of High - Tc Cuprates

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Publishing Information

Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co.
Imprint Place
Singapore (Singapore)
ISBN
981-02-2180-0
Imprint Title
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Anharmonic Properties of High - T_c Cuprates
Imprint Pagination
296 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 118-126
Report number
INIS-SI--98002

Conference

Title
Anharmonic Properties of High - T_c Cuprates
Acronym
International Workshop on
Dates
1-6 Sep 1994
Place
Bled (Slovenia)

Optional Information

Notes
33 ref., 6 figs.
Funding organization
National Science Foundation (United States)