SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND THE LOW-TEMPERATURE ORTHORHOMBIC TO TETRAGONAL PHASE-TRANSITION IN LA2-XBAXCUO4

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作者
BILLINGE, SJL [1 ]
KWEI, GH [1 ]
LAWSON, AC [1 ]
THOMPSON, JD [1 ]
TAKAGI, H [1 ]
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[1] UNIV TOKYO,DEPT APPL PHYS,BUNKYO KU,TOKYO 113,JAPAN
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.1903
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O4 [物理学];
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摘要
The relationship between the low-temperature orthorhombic-tetragonal (OT) phase transition in La2-xBaxCuO4 and the suppression of the superconducting state in samples with x = 0.125 has been investigated. Using high resolution synchrotron x-ray diffraction we show that the phase composition of a superconducting x = 0.15 sample varies with temperature identically to an x = 0.125 sample. This shows that the tetragonal structure does support bulk superconductivity in La2-xBaxCuO4 and the electronic transition which suppresses superconductivity at x = 0.125 is distinct from the OT structural transition.
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