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Structural Phase Transitions and Superconductivity in Lanthanum Copper Oxides

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High-Tc Superconductivity 1996: Ten Years after the Discovery

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Despite the enormous effort expended over the past ten years to determine the mechanism underlying high temperature superconductivity in cuprates there is still no consensus on the physical origin of this fascinating phenomenon. This is a consequence of a number of factors, among which are the intrinsic difficulties in understanding the strong electron correlations in the copper oxides, determining the roles played by antiferromagnetic interactions and low dimensionality, analyzing the complex phonon dispersion relationships, and characterizing the phase diagrams which are functions of the physical parameters of temperature and pressure, as well as the chemical parameters of stoichiometry and hole concentration. In addition to all of these intrinsic difficulties, extrinsic materials issues such as sample quality and homogeneity present additional complications.

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  3. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, USA

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    D. E. Cox & Q. Zhu

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Crawford, M.K. et al. (1997). Structural Phase Transitions and Superconductivity in Lanthanum Copper Oxides. In: Kaldis, E., Liarokapis, E., Müller, K.A. (eds) High-Tc Superconductivity 1996: Ten Years after the Discovery. NATO ASI Series, vol 343. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5554-0_12

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