Quantitative Model for the Superconductivity Suppression in R1−xPrxBa2Cu3O7 with Different Rare Earths

A. I. Liechtenstein; I. I. Mazin

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.1000

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Quantitative Model for the Superconductivity Suppression in R1−xPrxBa2Cu3O7 with Different Rare Earths

A. I. Liechtenstein, I. I. Mazin

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.1000 · Physical Review Letters

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Abstract

We report local density approximation plus Hubbard parameter U calculations of the electronic structure of ABa2Cu3O7 (A=Y,Pr,Nd) including Coulomb correlations in the f shell. For A=Pr (but not for A=Nd) an additional band crosses the Fermi level, grabbing holes from the (super)conducting pdσ band. On doping Y or Nd with Pr the position of the hole-depleting band depends on the atomic number of the host rare earth, through the position of its f level. This makes Tc suppression in doped compounds different for different hosts the stronger the smaller the atomic number of the host is, and also explains why an external pressure reduces Tc in doped compounds, opposite to the effect of the "chemical pressure" (substituting one rare earth by another with a smaller size).

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Formula	Reported Tc (K)	Pressure (GPa)	Type
PrBa2Cu3O7 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	—	Pressure not reported	unknown
NdBa2Cu3O7 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	—	Pressure not reported	unknown
YBa2Cu3O7 Archive — visibility unverified Source-occurrence policy only; no material identity or catalogue acceptance is inferred from the formula.	—	Pressure not reported	unknown