ON THE SUPERCONDUCTING MECHANISM OF K3C60 AND Ba1-xKxBiO3

A superconducting mechanism for K₃C₆₀ and Ba_1-xK_xBiO₃ has been suggested. This is the combining picture of the Cooper pair and the Ogg pair. Numerical calculations within the framework of this picture have been done for K₃C₆₀ and Ba_1-xK_xBiO₃, and the overall consistency with the experimental data of superconducting properties is good.     

Hyperfine spectroscopic study of the metal-insulator transition in V2O3

The metal-insulator (M-I) transition in vanadium sesquioxide V₂O₃ has been investigated by time differential perturbed angular correlation measurements of the electric fieldgradient (EFG) and the magnetic hyperfine field at dilute¹¹¹Cd impurities. The EFG undergoes a first-order change at the M-I transition at T_t=160 K, but does not reflect the high temperature resistivity anomaly. The increase of the EFG with temperature in the metallic phase can be attributed to thermal variations of the oxygen sublattice. The temperature dependence of the magnetic hyperfine field in the insulating phase follows a Brioullin function with a saturation value of H_hf(O)=15 KOe and an extrapolated Neel temperature, which, depending on the impurity concentration, varies between 188 and 230 K.     

Phenomenology of antiferromagnetic metal-insulator transition in 3d transition metal dichalcogenides

A phenomenological theory is set up to describe the metal-insulator transition at T = 0 between phases which both exhibit cooperative antiferromagnetic ordering. A prediction which emerges relates the antiferromagnetic moment to Fermiology in the metal. Possible experiments on 3d transition metal dichalogenides are thereby suggested.