High Tc superconductors and related transition metal oxides: special contributions in honor of K. Alex Muller on the occasion of his 80th birthday

A. S. Alexandrov (auth.), Annette Bussmann-Holder, Hugo Keller (eds.)3540710221, 9783540710226, 9783540710233

This book containing 30 articles written by highly reputed experts is dedicated to K. Alex Müller on the occasion of his 80th birthday. The contributions reflect the major research areas of K. Alex Müller which he activated in high temperature superconductivity and phase transitions. They are theoretical as well as experimental ones and focus mainly on high temperature superconductivity. A smaller part deals with ferroelectricity and their applications. Also in this field there have recently been major break throughs experimentally as well as theoretically which will be addressed by the invited authors.

During the scientific career of K. Alex Müller he made major advances in the understanding of ferroelectricity, which used to be his major research field. The discovery of superconductivity in cuprates for which he received together with J. Georg Bednorz the Nobel Prize in 1987 has not diminished his interest in this area, but has enlarged his activities considerably.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages I-XXII
Superlight Small Bipolarons: A Route to Room Temperature Superconductivity….Pages 1-15
Mott Limit in High- T c Cuprates….Pages 17-28
Perovskites and Their New Role in Oxide Electronics….Pages 29-34
Van Hove Scenario for High T c Superconductors….Pages 35-41
Site-Selective Oxygen-Isotope Exchange in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−x ….Pages 43-55
Coexistence of Order–Disorder and Displacive Behavior of KH 2 PO 4 and Analogs from Electron Paramagnetic Resonance….Pages 57-73
Essential Role of the Lattice in the Mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity….Pages 75-84
Shared Fascinations….Pages 85-97
Admixture of an s -Wave Component to the d -Wave Gap Symmetry in High-Temperature Superconductors….Pages 99-101
Electronic Inhomogeneities and Pairing from Unscreened Interactions in High- T c Superconductors….Pages 103-129
Interplay of Jahn-Teller Physics and Mott Physics in Cuprates….Pages 131-134
20 years High Pressure Materials Synthesis Group Activity After Discovery of High- T c Superconductors….Pages 135-141
Two-Gap Superconductivity in the Cuprate Superconductor La 1.83 Sr 0.17 CuO 4 ….Pages 143-156
Skyrmions in Lightly Doped Cuprates?….Pages 157-165
Lone Pairs, Bipolarons and Superconductivity in Tellurium….Pages 167-175
Carbon Based Superconductors….Pages 177-190
Band Renormalization Effect in Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca 2 Cu 3 O 10+δ ….Pages 191-199
Quantum Superconductor-Metal Transition in Al, C doped MgB 2 and Overdoped Cuprates?….Pages 201-211
Ferroelectric-on-Superconductor Devices….Pages 213-226
Electronic Phase Separation and Unusual Isotope Effects in La 2−x Sr x CuO 4 Observed by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance….Pages 227-236
Some Science History with a Mutual Connection….Pages 237-242
Reminiscences of Collaboration in 1986….Pages 243-251
Coupled Order Parameters in Magneto-Ferrolectrics….Pages 253-258
Back Matter….Pages 259-268
….Pages 269-276