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Reentrant softening in perovskitelike superconductors

T. Datta, H. M. Ledbetter, C. E. Violet, C. Almasan, J. Estrada

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.37.7502 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We suggest a model—reentrant elastic softening—that achieves three useful results. First, and principally, it reconciles existing sound-velocity–elastic-constant measurements with thermodynamics. Second, it leads to Debye characteristic temperatures that agree with those from specific-heat and phonon density-of-states determinations. Third, it links elastic-constant–temperature behavior in Y-Ba-Cu-O and La-Sr-Cu-O. The model predicts a superconducting-state elastic stiffness lower than the normal state.

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YBa2Cu3O7-x

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