High-Tc Copper Oxide Superconductors and Related Novel Materials: Dedicated to Prof. K. A. Müller on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday

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by  Annette Bussmann-Holder, Hugo Keller, Antonio Bianconi (eds.)

Springer Series in Materials Science 255
Annette Bussmann-Holder
Hugo Keller
Antonio Bianconi Editors
High-Tc
Copper Oxide
Superconductors
and Related Novel
Materials
Dedicated to Prof. K. A. Müller on the
Occasion of his 90th Birthday
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High-Tc Copper Oxide
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Dedicated to Prof. K. A. M ller on the
Occasion of his 90th Birthday
Editors
AnnetteBussmann-Holder HugoKeller
Max-Planck-InstituteforSolid Physik-Institut
StateResearch Universita¨tZürichPhysik-Institut
Stuttgart,Germany Zürich,Switzerland
AntonioBianconi
3RICMASS
Rome,Italy
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Foreword
DearAlex,
10yearsago,weeditedabookentitled“HighT superconductorsandtransition
c
metaloxides”inhonorofyour80thbirthday.Wedidnotanticipatethattherewould
be another chance to have a second edition now entitled “High T copper oxide
c
superconductors and related materials” on the occasion of your 90th birthday.
Again we invited friends, companions, colleagues, and former students of yours
tocontributetothisbookandhadaverypositiveresonancewhichisreflectedinthe
newedition.Theircontributionsareunlimitedwithrespecttothelengthandformat,
andwespecificallywelcomedthemtonotonlysubmitpurelyscientificpapersbut
also to commemorate personal interactions with you. Accordingly this volume
comprisesabroadspectrumrangingfromwonderfulmemoriestopurelyscientific
contributions,reflectingpartlyyourcomplexpositivepersonalityandyouruncon-
ventionalcomprehensiveapproachtoscience.
Duringthelast10years,youmentionedmanytimestobothofusthatnotonly
the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates was decisive for
your career, but that all previous work would have been sufficient for you to quit
science and commemorate a positive balance of your achievements. These have
beenmultifoldandmostlyrelatedtothepioneeringworkonferroelectrics,critical
phenomena and phase transitions, electron paramagnetic resonance, Jahn–Teller
effect,polaronphysics,granularsuperconductivity,andmanymorerelatedtopics.
The most famous work before cuprates is certainly related to SrTiO and perov-
3
skiteswhichisstillunderintensiveinvestigationandhighlycitedasgroundbreak-
ing advancement in the field. For illustration purposes, the citation history of a
single paper by you (SrTiO : Intrinsic Quantum Paraelectric Below 4-K; KA
3
MULLER, H. BURKARD, PHYSICAL REVIEW B 19, 3593 (1979)) on SrTiO
3
isshowninFigure1.Thepaperhasbeencited981timeswithanaveragecitation
rate25.82peryear.
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vi Foreword
Since we have summarized these activities in the foreword of the previous
volume,welookbackhereonthepasttenyearsofyourprivateandscientificlife.
Your80thbirthdaywascelebratedwithyourfamilyandclosefriendsonthelake
ofZuginabeautifulandpicturesqueenvironment.Inspiteofthispositivestartinto
a new decade, the future developed differently due to various health problems
whichforcedyoutoreduceyourtravelactivitiesincontrasttoscientificambitions.
As soon as you were able to overcome these problems and recover to full health,
youacceptedvarious invitationstointernational conferences fromwhich only the
highlightsarementionedbelow.
In particular, it is important to emphasize your travel to the APS meeting in
Dallasin2011,whereaspecialsessionwasdevotedtothe100thyeardiscoveryof
superconductivityandthe25thanniversaryofhigh-temperaturesuperconductivity
incuprates.Yougavearemarkableandoutstandingpresentationofyourviewpoint
on cuprates which is in contrast to some prominent common theoretical under-
standing. You did not bother to confront those with different opinions with argu-
mentsandyourowncomprehensionofthephysicsofcuprates.Thistalkwaswell
acknowledgedbytheaudienceandhonoredbystandingovations.
Youdecidedtowithdrawfrompresentingfurtherscientifictalksatinternational
events and finalize your oral contributions by giving your last talk at the M2S
conference in Geneva in 2015. This conference series was initiated by Georg
BednorzandyouinInterlakenin1988andbecameafamous platforminthefield
of superconductivity and magnetism. In Geneva, you emphasized once again in a
very emphatic way your understanding of the physics of cuprates and the impor-
tance of polaron physics especially supported by numerous isotope experiments
initiated by you. Your talk was appreciated by the frenetic applause by the
audience.
During the last 10 years and keeping in mind your age of 80+, your scientific
activity remained as active as in previous years and was inspired by innovative
ideas and original experiments. While the focus was on cuprates, you also went
Foreword vii
backtoyourformerinterestsinferroelectrics.Altogether,youpublishedmorethan
25 papers in this period with emphasis on polaron and bipolaron formation and
essentialheterogeneityincupratesandtheirrelationtoFermiglasssystems.Jahn–
Teller physics, isotope effects, and coupled s+d-wave order parameters were
another focus. An important achievement for the understanding of the dynamical
propertiesofferroelectrics wasmadebyreinvestigatingEPR data andconcluding
about the phase transition mechanism. This list is not complete but demonstrates
alreadythediversevarietyofyouractivities.
Both of us enjoyed and highly estimated your warm and thoughtful friendship
andcarewhich helpedusenormouslyinrecovering frompersonal problems.You
adoptedourdifficultiesasyoursandtriedtoresolvethosewithus.However,andin
spite of your advanced age, you also celebrated with us diverse anniversaries and
contributed actively and in a dedicated manner to those. Your interests are not
restrictedtoourpersonsonlybutextendtoourfamiliesandtheirdevelopments.
Scientifically,youwereandareapermanentandfruitfulsourceofinspirationfor
novelideasandactivitieswhichiswellreflectedinourcurrentcommonprojects.
DearAlex,
We warmly congratulate you to the 90th birthday and wish you many more
happy and healthy years where we can further enjoy your deep friendship and
energeticstrongsupport.
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LeutemitMutundCharaktersinddenanderenLeutenimmersehrunheimlich.
DamitdasM€oglicheentsteht,mussimmerwiederdasUnm€oglicheversuchtwerden.
Peoplewithcourageandcharacterarealwaysscarytoothers.
Forthepossibletoarise,theimpossiblehastobeenvoked.
Stuttgart,Germany AnnetteBussmann-Holder
07.12.2016 HugoKeller
Contents
1 ElectronicPhaseSeparationandElectron–PhononCoupling
inCuprateSuperconductors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
AndreasBill,VladimirHizhnyakov,andG€otzSeibold
2 TheSearchforHigherT inHouston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
c
C.W.Chu
3 FromGranularSuperconductivitytoHighTc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
GuyDeutscher
4 AlexandtheOriginofHigh-TemperatureSuperconductivity. . . . 35
TakeshiEgami
5 EncounterswithAlex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
KristianFossheim
6 TheBarocaloricEffect:ASpin-offoftheDiscovery
ofHigh-TemperatureSuperconductivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
AlbertFurrer
7 PersonalReflectionsonHigh-TcSuperconductivity. . . . . . . . . . . . 73
JohnB.Goodenough
8 NMRofCuprateSuperconductors:RecentDevelopments. . . . . . . 77
MichaelJurkutat,JonasKohlrautz,StevenReichardt,
AndreasErb,GrantV.M.Williams,andJürgenHaase
9 TowardsanUnderstandingofHoleSuperconductivity. . . . . . . . . . 99
J.E.Hirsch
10 ShortScalePhaseSeparationofPolarons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
VictorV.Kabanov
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