Ordering of bond length fluctuations in the copper-oxide superconductors. Goodenough, J. B. Europhysics Letters (EPL), 57(4):550–556, February, 2002.
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The phase diagram of La 2 ? x Sr x CuO 4 is interpreted. From the virial theorem, it is argued that the crossover from localized to itinerant electronic behavior in the range 0 \textless x \textless 0.3 is first order, and cooperative bond length fluctuations give spinodal phase segregations below room temperature between the superconductive phase at 0.15 \textless x \textless 0.18 and either the parent, antiferromagnetic phase at x = 0 or the overdoped phase x \textgreater 0.25. In the interval 0.1 \textless x \textless 0.27, the short-length-scale bond length fluctuations between strongly and weakly correlated regions order progressively with decreasing temperature T \textless 300 K into static or travelling CDW/SDW stripes corresponding to x = 1/8,1/6,5/24, or 1/4. Hybridization of itinerant electrons with a traveling x = 1/6 CDW/SDW gives the heavy fermions that condense into superconductive pairs.
@article{goodenough_ordering_2002,
	title = {Ordering of bond length fluctuations in the copper-oxide superconductors},
	volume = {57},
	issn = {0295-5075},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00497-y},
	doi = {10.1209/epl/i2002-00497-y},
	abstract = {The phase diagram of La 2 ? x Sr x CuO 4 is interpreted. From the virial theorem, it is argued that the crossover from localized to itinerant electronic behavior in the range 0 {\textless} x {\textless} 0.3 is first order, and cooperative bond length fluctuations give spinodal phase segregations below room temperature between the superconductive phase at 0.15 {\textless} x {\textless} 0.18 and either the parent, antiferromagnetic phase at x = 0 or the overdoped phase x {\textgreater} 0.25. In the interval 0.1 {\textless} x {\textless} 0.27, the short-length-scale bond length fluctuations between strongly and weakly correlated regions order progressively with decreasing temperature T {\textless} 300 K into static or travelling CDW/SDW stripes corresponding to x = 1/8,1/6,5/24, or 1/4. Hybridization of itinerant electrons with a traveling x = 1/6 CDW/SDW gives the heavy fermions that condense into superconductive pairs.},
	number = {4},
	journal = {Europhysics Letters (EPL)},
	author = {Goodenough, J. B.},
	month = feb,
	year = {2002},
	pages = {550--556}
}

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