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Origin of superconducting carriers in "non-doped" T'- (La,RE)2CuO4 (RE = Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Lu, and Y) prepared by molecular beam epitaxy
We have performed a systematic investigation of the variations of the lattice
constants with substituent rare-earth element concentration x in the nominally
undoped superconductors T'-(La3+)2-x(RE3+)xCuO4 (RE = Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Lu, and
Y), which we have recently discovered using MBE. The results show both the
in-plane and out-of-plane lattice constants (a0 and c0) linearly decrease with
x, whose extrapolation to x = 2 agrees well with the reported a0 and c0 values
for each T'-RE2CuO4. This behavior is what one would expect simply from the
ionic size difference between La3+ and RE3+. The absence of the Cu-O bond
stretching due to electron-doping, which is commonly observed in electron-doped
T' and infinite-layer superconductors, implies that electron doping via oxygen
deficiencies is, at least, not a main source of charge carriers.Comment: proceedings of ISS 200
Phase control of La2CuO4 in thin-film synthesis
The lanthanum copper oxide, La2CuO4, which is an end member of the prototype
high-Tc superconductors (La,Sr)2CuO4 and (La,Ba)2CuO4, crystallizes in the
"K2NiF4" structure in high-temperature bulk synthesis. The crystal chemistry,
however, predicts that La2CuO4 is at the borderline of the K2NiF4 stability and
that it can crystallize in the Nd2CuO4 structure at low synthesis temperatures.
In this article we demonstrate that low-temperature thin-film synthesis
actually crystallizes La2CuO4 in the Nd2CuO4 structure. We also show that the
phase control of "K2NiF4"-type La2CuO4 versus "Nd2CuO4"-type La2CuO4 can be
achieved by varying the synthesis temperature and using different substrates.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRB, revte
Generic phase diagram of "electron-doped" T' cuprates
We investigated the generic phase diagram of the electron doped
superconductor, Nd2-xCexCuO4, using films prepared by metal organic
decomposition. After careful oxygen reduction treatment to remove interstitial
Oap atoms, we found that the Tc increases monotonically from 24 K to 29 K with
decreasing x from 0.15 to 0.00, demonstrating a quite different phase diagram
from the previous bulk one. The implication of our results is discussed on the
basis of tremendous influence of Oap "impurities" on superconductivity and also
magnetism in T' cuprates. Then we conclude that our result represents the
generic phase diagram for oxygen-stoichiometric Nd2-xCexCuO4.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures; International Symposium on Superconductivity
(ISS) 200
Multiscale expansion of the lattice potential KdV equation on functions of infinite slow-varyness order
We present a discrete multiscale expansion of the lattice potential
Korteweg-de Vries (lpKdV) equation on functions of infinite order of
slow-varyness. To do so we introduce a formal expansion of the shift operator
on many lattices holding at all orders. The lowest secularity condition from
the expansion of the lpKdV equation gives a nonlinear lattice equation,
depending on shifts of all orders, of the form of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger
(NLS) equationComment: 9 pages, submitted to Journ. Phys.
Charge transfer gap for T'-RE2CuO4 and T-La2CuO4 as estimated from Madelung potential calculations
T'-RE2CuO4 (RE: rare-earth element), after appropriate "reduction", has
fairly high conductivity and also exhibits clear Fermi edge in photoemission
spectroscopy. To clarify the origin of conductivity in the T' mother compounds,
we evaluated the unscreened charge-transfer gap for T'-RE2CuO4 and T-La2CuO4.
The value of charge-transfer gap for T'-compounds almost linearly decreases
with increasing the ionic radius of RE from 12.24 eV for T'-Tm2CuO4 to 9.90 eV
for T'-La2CuO4. The results qualitatively explain metallic conductivity in
T'-RE2CuO4 for large RE.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of ISS 200
Ce doping in T-La2CuO4 films: Broken electron-hole symmetry for high-Tc superconductivity
We attempted Ce doping in La2CuO4 with the K2NiF4 (T) structure by molecular
beam epitaxy. At low growth temperature and with an appropriate substrate
choice, we found that Ce can be incorporated into the K2NiF4 lattice up to x ~
0.06, which had not yet been realized in bulk synthesis. The doping of Ce makes
T-La2-xCexCuO4 more insulating, which is in sharp contrast to Ce doping in
La2CuO4 with the Nd2CuO4 structure, which makes the compounds superconducting.
The observed smooth increase in resistivity from hole-doped side
(T-La2-xSrxCuO4) to electron-doped side (T-La2-xCexCuO4) indicates that
electron-hole symmetry is broken in the T-phase materials.Comment: proceedings of ISS 200
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