ELECTRON-PHONON EFFECTS IN THE INFRARED SPECTRA OF HIGH Tc SUPERCONDUCTORS Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • This brief review discusses the evidence for and implications of strong interactions between certain phonon modes and some of the charge carriers in oxide superconductors. We suggest that the interaction, which involves oxygen vibrations, is sufficiently strong that the interacting carriers are rendered immobile. Other carriers interact only weakly; it is these latter free carriers which dominate the electrical conductivity and which condense to form a superfluid.

publication date

  • October 10, 1991