Phase dependent superconductivity in the Y-Ba-Cu-O system

Studies of stable phases containing copper have been made when mixtures of Y₂O₃, BaCO₃ and CuO are reacted. It is found that out of four phases there is only one phase which is superconducting and the volume ratio of superconducting to non-superconducting phase decreases rapidly as we move away from the stoichiometry of the superconducting phase having composition YBa₂Cu₃O_8−y.     

锶掺杂钡位对YBCO晶体结构和超导电性的影响

利用XRD对系列样品YBa2-xSrxCu3O7-δ的(x=0~0.2)晶体结构进行研究,给出了体系相结构的掺杂效应,结果发现,随着掺杂量的增加,样品的晶体结构由正交相向四方相转变.同时采用四引线法对掺杂样品YBa2-xSrxCu3O7-δ的超导电性能进行了系统测量,发现随着锶掺杂量的增加,样品的超导转变温度总体呈明显降低趋势,并初步分析了钡位锶掺杂所引起的晶体结构变化对超导电性的影响.     

掺杂MgCNi3超导电性和磁性的第一性原理研究

从第一性原理出发，计算了MgCNi₃的电子能带结构.MgCNi₃中C 2p与Ni 3d轨道杂化使穿梭费米面上的Ni 3d能带表现出平面性，费米面落在态密度范霍夫奇异(vHs)峰的右坡上.vHs峰上大的电子态密度和铁磁相变点附近的自旋涨落是决定MgCNi₃超导电性的重要因素.研究了三种替代式掺杂对其超导电性和磁性的影响，发现电子掺杂使费米能级下滑到态密度较低的位置，导致体系转变为无超导电性的顺磁相；同构等价电子数的金属间化合物的轨道杂化，引起费米面上态密度的减少，降低了超导电性；而空穴掺杂使费米面向vHs峰值方向移动，虽然费米面上电子态密度增大可能提高超导电性，但增强了的Ni原子磁交换作用产生铁磁序，破坏了超导电性. 关键词： 电子结构 超导电性 磁性 掺杂     

Effects of electron correlation on superconductivity in the Hatsugai–Kohmoto model

Understanding how electrons form pairs in the presence of strong electron correlations demands going beyond the BCS paradigm. We study a correlated superconducting model where the correlation effects are accounted for by a U term local in momentum space. The electron correlation is treated exactly while the electron pairing is treated approximately using the mean-field theory. The self-consistent equation for the pair potential is derived and solved. Somewhat contrary to expectation, a weak attractive U comparable to the pair potential can destroy the superconductivity, whereas for weak to intermediate repulsive U, the pair potential can be enhanced. The fidelity of the mean-field ground state is calculated to describe the strength of the elelectron correlation. We show that the pair potential is not equal to the single-electron superconducting gap for the strongly correlated superconductors, in contrast to the uncorrelated BCS limit.     

高温超导体电子结构和超导机理的角分辨光电子能谱研究

超导是一种奇异的宏观量子现象.100多年来,已发现的超导体主要分为两类:以金属或者合金为代表的常规超导体以及以铜氧化物和铁基高温超导体为代表的非常规超导体.常规超导体的超导机理能被BCS超导理论完美解释,但高温超导体的超导机理至今仍未达成共识,已经成为凝聚态物理领域中长期争论且充满挑战的重大科学问题.从实验上揭示非常规超导材料的微观电子结构,是理解其奇异正常态和超导电性机理、建立新理论的前提和基础.角分辨光电子能谱技术,由于可以实现对材料中电子的能量、动量和自旋的直接测量,在高温超导研究中发挥了重要的作用.本文综述了我们利用角分辨光电子能谱技术在铜氧化物和铁基高温超导体电子结构和超导机理研究中取得的一些进展,主要包括母体的电子结构、正常态的非费米液体行为、超导态的能带和超导能隙结构以及多体相互作用等.这些结果为理解铜氧化物和铁基高温超导体的物性及超导机理提供了重要的信息.     

YBCO/聚丙烯腈杂化膜及其超导性研究

报告了一种简单制备不依赖于基底结构的柔性YBCO/聚丙烯腈（PAN）厚膜的新方法.研究结果发现,PAN含量从0增加到10wt%的过程中,全部YBCO/PAN样品的超导临界温度T_c在900—920 K区间,表现出较好的超导电性.而且当PAN含量为10wt%时,YBCO/PAN杂化膜即具有一定柔性,膜厚约35 μm,临界电流密度Jc=29×10⁴Acm^-2(1 T, 10 K)和J< 关键词： 超导电性 YBCO 聚丙烯腈（PAN） 杂化膜     

On identical nature of the superconductivity mechanisms in 30 K and 90 K superconductors

A systematic study of Zn substitution in both lanthanum and yttrium-based oxide superconductors withT _cof 30 K and 90 K has been carried out simultaneously under identical conditions. Contrary to the general belief, the results indicate that the mechanism responsible for superconductivity in 30 K compounds is unlikely to be radically different from that of the 90 K compounds.     

聚对苯乙炔的能带结构和关联能计算

在考虑电子-电子相互作用情况下,对基态非简并聚合物聚对苯乙炔（PPV）的长程关联能进行了理论计算,并用长程关联能对带隙进行修正,最后讨论了长程关联能对带隙的影响。在对PPV链的计算中发现,长程关联能先会随着链长N的增加而减小,但当链长大于10后长程关联能会达到饱和。在链长为20个单元的PPV计算中,长程关联能的修正会降低由Hartree-Fock(HF)方法所得的能隙宽度。修正后的能隙宽度能很好的接近实验结果。     

Fermion dynamical symmetry and strongly-correlated electrons: A comprehensive model of high-temperature superconductivity

We review application of the SU(4) model of strongly-correlated electrons to cuprate and iron-based superconductors. A minimal self-consistent generalization of BCS theory to incorporate antiferromagnetism on an equal footing with pairing and strong Coulomb repulsion is found to account systematically for the major features of high-temperature superconductivity, with microscopic details of the parent compounds entering only parametrically. This provides a systematic procedure to separate essential from peripheral, suggesting that many features exhibited by the high-T_c data set are of interest in their own right but are not central to the superconducting mechanism. More generally, we propose that the surprisingly broad range of conventional and unconventional superconducting and superfluid behavior observed across many fields of physics results from the systematic appearance of similar algebraic structures for the emergent effective Hamiltonians, even though the microscopic Hamiltonians of the corresponding parent states may differ radically from each other.     

Temperature dependent of thermal expansion and ferroelectric properties for BiAlO3-modified BaTiO3 lead-free ceramics

Perovskite structure (1 − x)BaTiO₃–xBiAlO₃ (BT–xBA, x = 0.05, 0.08 and 0.1, corresponding to BT–5BA, BT–8BA and BT–10BA, respectively) ceramics were prepared by a solid state reaction route. Crystal structure of BT–xBA ceramics was determined by using XRD. Dielectric properties were studied as a function of temperature at different frequencies, which indicated that the phase transition temperature (T_m) decreased with increasing x. With increasing temperature, thermal expansion dl/l increased while thermal expansion coefficient α had weak concentration dependence. The Burns temperature was much higher than the transition temperature T_m for the BT–5BA and BT–10BA ceramics. Polarization hysteresis loops (P–E), electrostrictive (S–E) and S versus P² (S–P²) at different temperatures were displayed. P_max slightly decreased due to thermally activated leakage current, meanwhile, S_max decreased at above T_m with the contribution of ferroelectric domain reorientation decreased. The electrostrictive coefficient Q value was clearly larger than that of lead-based electrostrictors at room temperature. Furthermore, it exhibited a slim loop with negligible hysteresis and a subtle linear feature at higher temperature.     

新型超导材料MgCNi3的电子结构与超导电性研究

用MS-Xα方法研究了非氧化物超导材料MgCNi₃的电子结构. 研究结果显示, 态密度分布曲线的主峰靠近Fermi面, 主要来自于Ni的d电子的贡献. 用T(T=Co，Mn，Cu)替代MgCNi₃中的部分Ni形成化合物MgCNi₂T，替代使Ni的价电子数减小, 价态发生变化, Fermi面处态密度N(E_F)减小. 计算结果表明：无论是电子掺杂（Cu）还是空穴掺杂（Co，Mn），MgCNi₃的超导电 关键词： 电子结构 态密度 超导电性     

聚对苯乙炔的能带结构和关联能计算

在考虑电子-电子相互作用情况下,对基态非简并聚合物聚对苯乙炔(PPV)的长程关联能进行了理论计算,并用长程关联能对带隙进行修正,最后讨论了长程关联能对带隙的影响.在对PPV链的计算中发现,长程关联能先会随着链长N的增加而减小,但当链长大于10个PPV单元后,长程关联能会达到饱和.与由Hartree-Fock(HF)方法所得的能隙宽度比.长程关联能的修正会使得能隙降低,这种修正后的能隙宽度与实验结果一致.     

QCD phase diagram at finite isospin and baryon chemical potentials with the self-consistent mean field approximation

The self-consistent mean field approximation of the two-flavor NJL model,with a free parameter a to reflect the competition between the "direct" channel and the "exchange" channel,is employed to study the QCD phase structure at finite iso spin chemical potential μ_I,finite bary on chemical potential μ_B and finite temperature T,and especially to study the location of the QCD critical point.Our results show that in order to match the corresponding lattice results of iso spin density and energy density,the contributions of the "exchange" channel need to be considered in the framework of the NJL model,and a weighting factor α=0.5 should be taken.It is also found that for fixed isospin chemical potentials,the lower temperature of the phase transition is obtained with increasing a in the T-μ_I plane,and the largest difference of the phase transition temperature with different a's appears at μ_I~1.5 mπ.At μ_I=0 the temperature of the QCD critical end point(CEP) decreases with increasing a,while the critical baryon chemical potential increases.At high isospin chemical potential(μ_I=500 MeV),the temperature of the QCD tricritical point(TCP) increases with increasing a,and in the low temperature regions the system will transition from the pion superfluidity phase to the normal phase as μ_B increases.At low density,the critical temperature of the QCD phase transition with different a's rapidly increases with μ_I at the beginning,and then increases smoothly around μ_I 300 MeV.In the high baryon density region,the increase of the iso spin chemical potential will raise the critical baryon chemical potential of the phase transition.     

Critical temperature oscillations and reentrant superconductivity due to the FFLO like state in F/S/F trilayers

Ferromagnet/Superconductor/Ferromagnet (F/S/F) trilayers, in which the establishing of a Fulde‐Ferrell Larkin‐Ovchinnikov (FFLO) like state leads to interference effects of the superconducting pairing wave function, form the core of the superconducting spin valve. The realization of strong critical temperature oscillations in such trilayers, as a function of the ferromagnetic layer thicknesses or, even more efficient, reentrant superconductivity, are the key condition to obtain a large spin valve effect, i.e. a large shift in the critical temperature. Both phenomena have been realized experimentally in the Cu₄₁Ni₅₉/Nb/Cu₄₁Ni₅₉ trilayers investigated in the present work.     

Effect of Te doping on superconductivity and charge-density wave in dichalcogenides 2H-NbSe2-xTex （x = 0, 0.1, 0.2）

Single crystals of Te-doped dichalcogenides 2H-NbSe2-xTex （x ---- 0, 0.10, 0.20） were grown by vapour transport method. The effect of Te doping on the superconducting and charge-density wave （CDW） transitions has been investigated. The sharp decrease of residual resistance ratio, RRR = R（3OOK）/R（SK）, with increasing Te content was observed, indicating that the disorder in the conducting plane is induced by Te doping. Meanwhile the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, decreases monotonically with Te content. However, the CDW transition temperature, TCDW, shown by a small jump in the temperature dependence of the resistivity near 30 K, increases slightly. The results show that the suppression of superconductivity might be caused by the enhancement of CDW ordering. The disorder has little influence on the CDW ordering.     

Effect of vanadium doping on structural, magnetic and optical properties of ZnO nanoparticles

V-doped ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized by heating metal acetates in organic solvent. All synthesized samples were annealed in air and reducing gas atmosphere at 600 °C for 8 h. The XRD patterns of both samples annealed in air and reducing atmosphere indicate that samples have polycrystalline wurtzite structure with increase in lattice constant with increase in V-doping. The particle sizes were calculated by using Scherrer's equation which lies in the range of 25-30 nm. The SEM images show that particles annealed in air and under reducing environment are spherical in nature. The EDX results reveal that samples contain V, Zn, and O contents only. The TPR results indicate that the system contains isolated VO_x, ZnO_x and bimetallic Zn: V (O_x) sites and indication of electronically excited bimetal sites. There is no signature of ferromagnetism in all samples annealed in air while room temperature ferromagnetism has been observed only under reducing atmosphere annealing. There is monotonically increase in saturation magnetization with V-doping concentration. UV-vis spectroscopy study shows that there is a linear increase in band gap energy with increase in V-doping, a direct evidence of change in magnetic properties due to V-doping and under reducing environment.     

Revealing the A_(1g)-type strain effect on superconductivity and nematicity in FeSe thin flake

The driving mechanism of nematicity and its twist with superconductivity in iron-based superconductors are still under debate.Recently,a dominant B_(1 g)-type strain effect on superconductivity is observed in underdoped iron-pnictides superconductors Ba(Fe_(1-x)Co_x)_2 As_2,suggesting a strong interplay between nematicity and superconductivity.Since the long-range spin order is absent in FeSe superconductor,whether a similar strain effect could be also observed or not is an interesting question.Here,by utilizing a flexible film as substrate,we successfully achieve a wide-range-strain tuning of FeSe thin flake,in which both the tensile and compressive strain could reach up to ～0.7%,and systematically study the strain effect on both superconducting and nematic transition(T_c and T_s) in the FeSe thin flake.Our results reveal a predominant A_(1 g)-type strain effect on T_c.Meanwhile,T_s exhibits a monotonic anti-correlation with T_c and the maximum T_c reaches to 12 K when T_s is strongly suppressed under the maximum compressive strain.Finally,in comparison with the results in the underdoped Ba(Fe_(1-x)Co_x)_2 As_2,the absence of B_(1 g)-type strain effect in FeSe further supports the role of stripe-type spin fluctuations on superconductivity.In addition,our work also supports that the orbital degree of freedom plays a key role to drive the nematic transition in FeSe.     

硬度和电负性与掺杂铁基砷化物超导电性关系

研究了目前已掺杂的铁基砷化物超导体的硬度和电负性与超导电性的关系,发现其有很好的规律性。因此,提出用硬度均衡值和电负性的平均效应值作为掺杂铁基砷化物超导体超导电性的一个判断标准。     

高温超导带材YBCO涂层导体的失超传播特性研究

在液氮(77K)环境下对YBCO涂层导体的交、直流失超传播特性进行了研究。测量了交、直流情况下的失超传播速度以及最小失超能量;分析了超导带材的失超传播速度与传输电流的关系;推导了一维模型下的失超传播速度计算公式。结果表明,当带材的传输电流交流(有效值)与直流相同时,交、直流失超传播速度基本一致,交流的最小失超能略小,且随着传输电流的增大最小失超能间的差距加大。     

平均价电子数与掺杂Y_1Ba_2Cu_3O_(7-δ)体系超导电性的关系

文中尝试引进平均价电子数对掺杂Y1Ba2Cu3O7-δ(YBCO)体系超导电性进行分析。结果表明,掺杂YB-CO体系的平均价电子数Zv与转变温度Tc、临界电流密度Jc之间有较好高斯分布规律。因此,提出用平均价电子数作为提高掺杂YBCO体系超导电性的一个新依据。这对今后制备出具有更高Tc、Jc的掺杂YBCO超导氧化物有很好的指导意义。