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Reentrant Softening in Copper-Oxide Superconductors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011
Abstract
On the basis of our reentrant-softening model, sound-velocity results in La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 and YBa2Cu3O7−x are shown to be neither dissimilar nor inconsistent with thermodynamic requirements. In both materials, as temperature decreases, the lattice softens just above Tc. Below Tc, this softening is offset by increased stiffness associated with the developing superconducting phase. This model agrees with results from other physical-property measurements, and it predicts that elastic stiffness is higher in the normal state than in the superconducting state.
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