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Bulk Modulus of the YBaCuO Oxide Superconductor Obtained from Magnetic Measurements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2011
Abstract
Starting from the fact that the YBa2Cu3O7-x oxide superconductor system has a constant magnetic susceptibility at high temperatures for each oxygen deficiency x, and assuming that the charge carriers have a free-electron-like behavior, the observed magnetic susceptibility of the samples at room temperature can be associated to the Pauli paramagnetismus and to the Landau diamagnetism of the charge carriers. This result allows one to calculate the charge carriers density from the magnetic susceptibility in the sample. If besides one assume that by applying an external pressure on the sample, there is a change of the volume of the unit cell, but not in the number of the charge carriers in it, then, it is possible to calculate the Bulk modulus of the YBaCuO system at room temperature starting from these magnetic measurements. The obtained results are of the same order of magnitude to those reported in the literature and obtained from thermodynamic and mechanical measurements.
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