Misfit Strain in Superlattices Controlling the Electron-Lattice Interaction via Microstrain in Active Layers
High-temperature superconductivity (HTS) emerges in quite different electronic materials: cuprates, diborides, and iron-pnictide superconductors. Looking for unity in the diversity we find in all these materials a common lattice architecture: they are practical realizations of heterostructures at at...
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| description | High-temperature superconductivity (HTS) emerges in quite different electronic materials: cuprates, diborides, and iron-pnictide superconductors. Looking for unity in the diversity we find in all these materials a common lattice architecture: they are practical realizations of heterostructures at atomic limit made of superlattices of metallic active layers intercalated by spacers as predicted in 1993 by one of us. The multilayer architecture is the key feature for the presence of electronic topological transitions where the Fermi surface of one of the subbands changes dimensionality. The superlattice misfit strain 𝜂 between the active and spacer layers is shown to be a key variable to drive the system to the highest critical temperature 𝑇𝑐 that occurs at a particular point of the 3D phase diagram 𝑇𝑐(𝛿,𝜂) where 𝛿 is the charge transfer or doping. The plots of 𝑇𝑐 as a function of misfit strain at constant charge transfer in cuprates show a first-order quantum critical phase transition where an itinerant striped magnetic phase competes with superconductivity in the proximity of a structural phase transition, that is, associated with an electronic topological transition. The shape resonances in these multigap superconductors is associated with the maximum 𝑇𝑐. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-72b119b34dbc4e348177c2125c1761cd2025-02-03T01:23:01ZengWileyAdvances in Condensed Matter Physics1687-81081687-81242010-01-01201010.1155/2010/261849261849Misfit Strain in Superlattices Controlling the Electron-Lattice Interaction via Microstrain in Active LayersNicola Poccia0Alessandro Ricci1Antonio Bianconi2Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, P. le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, ItalyDepartment of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, P. le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, ItalyDepartment of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, P. le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, ItalyHigh-temperature superconductivity (HTS) emerges in quite different electronic materials: cuprates, diborides, and iron-pnictide superconductors. Looking for unity in the diversity we find in all these materials a common lattice architecture: they are practical realizations of heterostructures at atomic limit made of superlattices of metallic active layers intercalated by spacers as predicted in 1993 by one of us. The multilayer architecture is the key feature for the presence of electronic topological transitions where the Fermi surface of one of the subbands changes dimensionality. The superlattice misfit strain 𝜂 between the active and spacer layers is shown to be a key variable to drive the system to the highest critical temperature 𝑇𝑐 that occurs at a particular point of the 3D phase diagram 𝑇𝑐(𝛿,𝜂) where 𝛿 is the charge transfer or doping. The plots of 𝑇𝑐 as a function of misfit strain at constant charge transfer in cuprates show a first-order quantum critical phase transition where an itinerant striped magnetic phase competes with superconductivity in the proximity of a structural phase transition, that is, associated with an electronic topological transition. The shape resonances in these multigap superconductors is associated with the maximum 𝑇𝑐.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/261849 |
| spellingShingle | Nicola Poccia Alessandro Ricci Antonio Bianconi Misfit Strain in Superlattices Controlling the Electron-Lattice Interaction via Microstrain in Active Layers Advances in Condensed Matter Physics |
| title | Misfit Strain in Superlattices Controlling the Electron-Lattice Interaction via Microstrain in Active Layers |
| title_full | Misfit Strain in Superlattices Controlling the Electron-Lattice Interaction via Microstrain in Active Layers |
| title_fullStr | Misfit Strain in Superlattices Controlling the Electron-Lattice Interaction via Microstrain in Active Layers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Misfit Strain in Superlattices Controlling the Electron-Lattice Interaction via Microstrain in Active Layers |
| title_short | Misfit Strain in Superlattices Controlling the Electron-Lattice Interaction via Microstrain in Active Layers |
| title_sort | misfit strain in superlattices controlling the electron lattice interaction via microstrain in active layers |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/261849 |
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