| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 72, Number 3, November 2005
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| Page(s) | 423 - 429 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10252-6 | |
| Published online | 30 September 2005 | |
Unconventional isotope effects as evidence for polaron formation in cuprates
1
Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research - Heisenbergstr. 1 D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
2
Physik-Institut der Universität Zürich - Winterthurerstr. 190 CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
3
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
4
Institute of Physics, A. Mickiewicz University - 85 Umultowska St. 61-614 Poznan, Poland
Received:
6
June
2005
Accepted:
9
September
2005
Unconventional isotope effects (Phys. Rev. Lett., 92 (2004) 057602) as observed in high-temperature superconducting cuprates (HTSC), are explained by polaron formation which leads to a renormalization of the single-particle energies and the formation of density-density interactions. It is shown that the dominant contribution to these effects stems from the coupling to the quadrupolar Q2-type phonon mode.
PACS: 71.38.-k – Polarons and electron-phonon interactions / 74.20.-z – Theories and models of superconducting state / 74.20.Mn – Nonconventional mechanisms (spin fluctuations, polarons and bipolarons, resonating valence bond model, anyon mechanism, marginal Fermi liquid, Luttinger liquid, etc.)
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