New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories (eBook)

Contributing Authors. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Lattice Dynamics and Electron Pairing in High Temperature Superconductors; A. Lazara et al. 2. Direct ARPES and T Enhancement in Compressively Strained LSCO-214 Films; D. Pavuna et al. 3. Full Fermi Surface of High Temperature Superconductor Revealed by Angular Magnetoresistance Oscillations; N.E. Hussey et al. 4. Sum Rules and Energy Scales in BiSrCaCuO; A.F. Santander-Syro et al. 5. Optical Properties of (Pr,Ce)2CuO4; A. Zimmers et al. 6. Tunneling Spectra Near TC in Overdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+; M. Oda et al. 7. Andreev - Saint James Reflections as a Tool for the Study of Unconventional Superconductors; G. Deutscher 8. Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+ c-Axis Bicrystal Twist and Cross-Whisker Experiments; R.A. Klemm 9. Nodeless Pairing State in YBa2Cu3O2; D.R. Harshman et al. 10. Nuclear Spin Relaxation and Incommensurate Magnetism in Doped Cuprates; L.P. Gor’kov 11. Antiferromagnetic Vortex Core in HTSC Studied by Spatially-Resolved NMR; K. Kumagai et al. 12. Exploring the Oxygen Order in Hg-1223 and Hg-1201 by 199Hg MAS NMR; R. Stem et al. 13. Two Fluids Formation in the Normal State of High-TC Superconductor; J.S. Kim, Y.W. Park 14. Temperature Dependence of in-Plane Resistivity of YBCO; J.Jung, M.Abdelhadi 15. Measurements of the Doping Effects on the in-Plane Paraconductivity in Cuprate Superconductors; F.Vidal et al. 16. A Possibility of a Phase Fluctuation-Like Effect in HTSC Cuprates; Yu.S. Nechaev 17. Pseudogap Behavior in Underdoped Cuprates; D. Pines 18. Notes on RVB-Vanilla by Anderson et al.; C.M. Varma 19. Enhanced TC Near the Metal/Insulator Transition: a New Perspective on Unconventional Superconducting Materials; M.S. Osofsky, R. J. Soulen, Jr. 20. Electron-Lattice Interaction in HTSC Cuprates ; T. Egami 21. High-TemperatureSuperconductivity of Oxides ; J. D. Dow, D.R. Harshman 22. Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Boson-Fermion Model of Cuprates; T.A. Mamedov, M. de Liano 23. Oxygen-Related Band-Features of the Extended Emery Model for the HTS Cuprates; I. Mrkonjic, S. Barisic 24. Condensation Energy for Spin Fluctuations Mechanism of Pairing in High-T Superconductors; S. Kruchinin 25. Effects of Disorder with Finite Range on the Properties of d-Wave Superconductors; C.T. Rieck et al. 26. SuperconductivitY in the Background of Two-Dimensional Stripe Superstructure; Boris V. Fine 27. Theory for Key Experiments in Cuprate Superconductors; D. Manske et al., 28. Dynamical Spin Susceptibility in Singlet-Correlated Band Model; M.V. Eremin, T. Eremin 29. Stripe-Like Inhomogeneities, Coherence, and the Physics of the High TC Cuprates; J. Ashkenazi 30. Self—Supported Superconductivity in Layered Metalochioronitrides; V.Z. Kresin et al. 31. First Order Superconducting Transition near a Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point; D.K. Morr 32. Structures and Superconducting Properties of Sodium Cobalt Oxides; K. Takada et al. 33. Upper Critical Field for Cobalt Oxide Superconductors; M.M. Maska, M. Mierzejewski 34. Disproportionation and Spin Ordering Tendencies in NaxCoO2 at x= 1/3; J. Kunes et al. 35. Interband Scattering in MgB2; R.P.S.M. Lobo et al. 36. Phonon Structure in Point Contact Spectra of MgB2; I.K. Yanson 37. A Theoretical Approach to Design Unconventional Superconductors by Heterocyclic Moiecules; C. Ogretir et al. Subject Index.