高压对高温超导体La1.85Sr0.15CuO4电子结构的影响

 采用Recursion方法计算了常压和1 GPa、4 GPa、8 GPa高压下La_1.85Sr_0.15CuO₄的电子结构，给出了费米能、费米能处态密度以及各晶位原子价的定量变化。结果表明：高压下T_c的变化可能源于CuO₂面上氧空穴和铜空穴数目的改变，且氧空穴数目的增加有利于超导性。     

La2CuO4+δ和La2-xSrxCuO4系统中的电子输运性质

 本文解释了La₂CuO_4+δ（0≤δ≤0.09）和La_2-xSr_xCuO₄（0≤x≤0.3）两种p型系统含铜稀土氧化物中的电阻和Seebeck系数与温度的依赖关系，在室温以上，一氧大气压下的La₂CuO_4+δ系统趋于失氧；在500 K以上，超导样品显示出失氧的一级相变，并且恢复到反铁磁相。在转变温度T₁≈300 K以下，对0<δ<0.05成份的样品，相分离成反铁磁相和超导相；而在T_cρ≈100 K的温度范围内，超导相进一步分离成富空穴和贫空穴畴。在0.04≤δ≤0.09范围内，T_c处的电阻陡降出现了台阶；我们认为，它反映了电子成对的起伏。在La_2-xSr_xCuO₄系统中，对于成分为01≈300 K以上，空穴的运动是弥散的，但是ΔH_m=0；而对于x≥0.22的样品，经历了从平滑到Fermi液态的转变。成份为0c1范围（其中空穴继续以弥散方式运动）是亚稳的，但是，在T_cρ≤150 K范围，出现了电荷起伏。当样品冷却通过T₁时，对于成份为0.15≤x≤0.2的样品，经历了由弥散到强质量增强巡游电子状态的转变；在T_c处，从均匀的修饰电子的正常态凝聚成超导的载流子对。在超导成份样品的正常态中，不寻常的电子-晶格相互作用，可以归结为在CuO₂面上从更离子性的到共价性的Cu:3d_x²-r²─O:P_σ键合的转变；通过这种转变，轨道杂化和Hubbard U参量随Cu─O键长和Cu原子上的外表局域氧化态都产生灵敏的变化。     

MgCNi3超导体在静水压下的弹性性质

 在0.1 MPa到0.5 GPa压力范围内，采用脉冲回波重合法（Pulse-Echo Overlap Method）测量了MgCNi₃超导体的横波及纵波声速，计算了体弹模量B、剪切模量G等弹性参数以及德拜温度、比热等热力学参数随压力的变化。常压下的θ_D与c_V的值分别为454.82 K和111.30 J/(mol·K)。对B-p曲线作线性拟合，得到体弹模量B₀在零压附近的导数B′₀，由此建立了MgCNi₃的状态方程。     

Synthesis and Structural Study of Sr2CuO3+δ Superconductor under High Pressure

A single-phase Sr₂CuO_3+δ superconductor is synthesized under high temperature and high pressure, in which oxygen atoms only partially occupy the apical sites next to the CuO₂ planes and act as hole-dopants. Thesuperconducting transition temperature with T_c^max=75K is achieved in the material. Structure analysis from x-ray powder diffraction data show that this material crystallizes into a K₂NiF₄ structure with tetragonal unit cell of a=3.795(3)AAand c= 12.507(1)AA. Energy-dispersive synchrotron x-ray-diffraction studies at ambient are performed on powder samples of Sr₂CuO_3+δ in a diamond-anvil cell at pressure up to 35GPa. Anisotropic compressibility is found. Pressure-induced isostructural phase transition might exist as revealed by the discontinuous change of crystal cell volume V withpressure.     

压力对HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+y超导转变温度的影响

 利用低温超高压装置，测量了Hg系样品HgBa₂Ca₂Cu₃O_8+y（Hg-1223）超导转变温度T_c在压力作用下的增强效应。压力最高达7.8 GPa，超导起始转变温度常压下为130 K，加压到5.4 GPa时获得最高温度为140 K。在5.4 GPa以下获得dT_c/dp为1.85 K/GPa。用压力作用下氧原子位置的改变使载流子浓度提高和CuO₂面间的耦合作用来解释高温超导的压力效应。     

EFFECT OF THE SUBSTITUTION OF Ga AND Sn FOR Cu ON THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY OF La1.85Sr0.15CuO4

The electronic structure of La_1.85Sr_0.15CuO₄， as well as the two cases of substitution of Ga and Sn for Cu, has been studied by the recursion method. The change of hole concentration and the effective local magnetic moment have also been calculated. Our calculations show that Ga and Sn destroy the two-dimensional character of the CuO₂ plane and lead to the disorder of the electronic structure, accompanied by the migration of electrons which canines the decrease of the hole concentration in the CuO₂ planes. From our point of view, these changes may be responsible for the destruction of superconductivity of the Ga and Sn-doped systems.     

钙钛矿结构材料Sr8CaRe3Cu4O24压力效应的研究

 基于密度泛函理论,运用局域轨道密度近似+哈伯德相互作用和平均场方法,研究了新型钙钛矿结构材料Sr₈CaRe₃Cu₄O₂₄在不同压强下的机械、电磁性质,并探讨该材料的居里温度T_C随压强变化的规律。计算结果表明：T_C随着压强的增加而升高,费米面附近能隙逐渐减小。最后通过海森伯模型对此作出了较为合理的解释。     

高温高压合成电子型掺杂层状钙钛矿结构锰氧化物La2-2xCa1+2xMn2O7

 用高温高压法、在1 260 ℃和5.0 GPa条件下,成功制备出电子型掺杂层状钙钛矿结构锰氧化物La_2-2xCa_1+2xMn₂O₇（x=1.0～0.8）系列样品。样品的粉末X射线衍射实验和Rietveld精修结构分析表明,所制样品具有Sr₃Ti₂O₇型四方结构,空间群为I4/mmm。随着电子浓度的增加,MnO₆八面体畸变程度增大,晶胞体积增加。同时样品的磁化强度随La的掺入、x的增加而增强,反铁磁有序温度T_N提高。由于双交换作用减小,样品的电阻增加。在测量温度范围内,没有观测到磁电阻效应。     

高氧压合成产物La2CuO4+δ的相变研究

 本文采用超高氧压2.3 GPa合成方法，得到超导相含量大于30%的超导化合物La₂CuO_4+δ所采用的压力是目前所见报导中对La₂CuO₄化合物施加的最高氧压。湿化学方法测量给出过量氧含量δ=0.05±0.01，而TGA（氮气中）给出δ=0.143。高氧压合成产物经在空气中、不同温度下加热，然后淬火到室温，结果发现超导体在200~300 ℃的加热处理中存在着一个一级相变。经此相变后，超导体转变成反铁磁半导体。TGA及DSC证实了此相变的存在。该相变前后所联系的氧含量变化恰好为湿化学方法给出的结果，这部分与超导电性存在联系的过量氧，实际上引起了Cu²⁺向Cu^(2+2δ)+的转变。该结果强有力地排除了所谓“超氧化物”引起超导电性的可能性。     

Sr1-xLaxTiO3的高温高压合成及XPS研究

 利用高温高压方法合成了有稀土元素La掺杂的钙钛矿氧化物Sr_1-xLa_xTiO₃。XRD测试表明，在x≤0.5时，样品基本为单相，呈立方相；晶胞体积随x的增加而增加，在x=0.4时开始减小。XPS测量发现，样品中存在Ti离子的变价。讨论了Ti离子价态的变化对晶格参数的影响。     

超导氧化物La1.85Sr0.15CuO4/超高分子量聚乙烯复合材料的输运性质

采用热压法获得了具有不同混合比例的超导氧化物La1.85Sr0.15CuO4/超高分子量聚乙烯导电复合材料,并利用x射线衍射、扫描电子显微镜和标准四引线方法对复合材料的结构和低温电输运性质进行测量.实验结果显示,超导氧化物La1.85Sr0.15CuO4颗粒随机分布在聚合物本体中,相互间没有连接构成网络结构.在正常态下,复合材料的电阻-温度变化曲线给出类半导体行为.但对应于超导氧化物La1.85Sr0.15CuO4的超导转变温度Tc处,复合材料的电阻-温度变化曲线出现了极小值.室温下电阻率ρ随外加电场强度E的变化曲线测量结果表明,ρ-E曲线为一线形关系,随着电场强度E增加,电阻率ρ下降.文中对可能存在的导电机制进行分析,结果表明隧道贯穿模型可以很好地解释复合材料的导电机制.另外,外加电场强度E对复合材料的电输运特性有明显的影响.     

High critical temperature by resonant quantum confinement: Evidence for polarons ordering at T *≈1.5T c in Bi-2212 and La-214 by EXAFS

Il Nuovo Cimento D - The temperature dependence of local Cu site conformations in single-domain crystals of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+y (Bi-2212) and La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 (La-214) has been determined by EXAFS...     

Effect of disorder outside the CuO2 planes on Tc of copper oxide superconductors

The effect of disorder on the superconducting transition temperature T(c) of cuprate superconductors is examined. Disorder is introduced into the cation sites in the plane adjacent to the CuO2 planes of two single-layer systems, Bi(2.0)Sr(1.6)Ln(0.4)CuO(6+delta) and La(1.85-y)Nd(y)Sr0.15CuO4. Disorder is controlled by changing rare earth (Ln) ions with a different ionic radius in the former, and by varying the Nd content in the latter with the doped carrier density kept constant. We show that this type of disorder works as weak scatterers in contrast to the in-plane disorder produced by Zn, but remarkably reduces T(c), suggesting novel effects of disorder on high-T(c) superconductivity.     

Dual nature of the electronic structure of (La(2--x--y)Nd(y)Sr(x))CuO(4) and La(1.85)Sr(0.15)CuO(4).

High resolution angle-resolved photoemission measurements have been carried out on (La(1.4--x)-Nd(0.6)Sr(x))CuO(4), a model system with static one-dimensional (1D) charge ordering (stripe), and (La(1.85)-Sr(0.15))CuO(4), a high temperature superconductor (T(c) = 40 K) with possible dynamic stripes. In addition to the straight segments near ( pi,0) and ( 0,pi) antinodal regions, we have identified the existence of spectral weight along the [1,1] nodal direction in the electronic structure of both systems. This observation of nodal state, together with the straight segments near antinodal regions, reveals the dual nature of the electronic structure of stripes due to the competition of order and disorder.     

Extremely correlated Fermi-liquid description of normal-state ARPES in cuprates

The normal-state single particle spectral function of the high temperature superconducting cuprates, measured by the angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES), has been considered both anomalous and crucial to understand. Here, we report an unprecedented success of the new extremely correlated Fermi liquid theory by one of us [B. S. Shastry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 056403 (2011)] to describe both laser and conventional synchrotron ARPES data (nodal cut at optimal doping) on Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+δ) and synchrotron data on La(1.85)Sr(0.15)CuO(4). It fits all data sets with the same physical parameter values, satisfies the particle sum rule and successfully addresses two widely discussed kink anomalies in the dispersion.     

Anomalous momentum dependence of the superconducting coherence peak and its relation to the pseudogap of La1.85Sr0.15CuO4

We performed high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 to study the nature of the single-particle excitation gap. We found that there is a well-defined superconducting coherence peak in the off-nodal region while it is strongly suppressed around the antinode. The momentum dependence of the single-particle excitation gap shows a striking deviation from the dx-y2--wave symmetry with anomalous enhancement around the antinode in both the superconducting and the pseudogap state. The observed close correlation between the superconducting coherence peak and the pseudogap suggests a substantial contribution of the pseudogap to the anomalous behavior of the gap in the superconducting state.     

Electron-phonon coupling in high-temperature cuprate superconductors determined from electron relaxation rates

We determined electronic relaxation times via pump-probe optical spectroscopy using sub-15 fs pulses for the normal state of two different cuprate superconductors. We show that the primary relaxation process is the electron-phonon interaction and extract a measure of its strength, the second moment of the Eliashberg function λ[ω2] = 800 ± 200 meV2 for La(1.85)Sr(0.15)CuO4 and λ[ω2] = 400 ± 100 meV2 for YBa(2)Cu(3)O(6.5). These values suggest a possible fundamental role of the electron-phonon interaction in the superconducting pairing mechanism.     

Metallic nonsuperconducting phase and D-wave superconductivity in Zn-substituted La1.85Sr0.15CuO4

Measurements of the resistivity, magnetoresistance, and penetration depth were made on films of La1.85Sr0.15CuO4, with up to 12 at. % of Zn substituted for the Cu. The results show that the quadratic temperature dependence of the inverse square of the penetration depth, indicative of d-wave superconductivity, is not affected by doping. The suppression of superconductivity leads to a metallic nonsuperconducting phase, as expected for a pairing mechanism related to spin fluctuations. The metal-insulator transition occurs in the vicinity of k(F)l approximately 1, and appears to be disorder driven, with the carrier concentration unaffected by doping.     

Evidence of electron fractionalization from photoemission spectra in the high temperature superconductors

In the normal state of the high temperature superconductors Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+delta) and La2(-x)Sr(x)CuO4, and in the related "stripe ordered" material, La(1.25)Nd(0.6)Sr(0.15)CuO4, there is sharp structure in the measured single hole spectral function, A<(k-->,omega), considered as a function of k--> at fixed small binding energy omega. At the same time, as a function of omega at fixed k--> on much of the putative Fermi surface, any structure in A<(k-->,omega), other than the Fermi cutoff, is very broad. This is characteristic of the situation in which there are no stable excitations with the quantum numbers of the electron, as is the case in the one-dimensional electron gas.     

c-axis optical response in the static stripe ordered phase of the cuprates

The c-axis far-infrared reflectivity spectra in the superconducting state were investigated for La1.85-yNd(y)Sr0.15CuO4. The Josephson plasma edge rapidly shifts towards lower frequency with increasing y, and almost disappears when y exceeds a critical value ( y(c) approximately 0.12) above which the low-temperature-tetragonal (LTT) deformation switches on, stabilizing the spin/charge ordered stripe phase. In the vicinity of y(c), a "normal state" reentrant behavior was observed with lowering temperature below Tc. This clearly demonstrates that the static stripe order pinned by the LTT distortion suppresses the interlayer phase coherence.