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Oxygen order-disorder transition in the superconductor YBa2Cu3O6+δ

J. M. Sanchez, F. Meja-Lira, J. L. Moran-Lopez

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.37.3678 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The order-disorder transition involving oxygen atoms and vacancies in the Cu-O basal plane of the YBa2Cu3O6+δ superconductor is studied using the cluster-variation method in the square approximation. We are able to reproduce most of the features observed in recent neutron-diffraction experiments by assuming that the chemical potential in the solid and gas phases varies linearly with temperature, and that the dominant interaction for the order-disorder transition is the oxygen-oxygen nearest-neighbor repulsion.

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YBa2Cu3O6+δ

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