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Extremely Overdoped Superconducting Cuprates via High Pressure Oxygenation Methods

Journal

CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/condmat6040050

Keywords

cuprates; high-temperature superconductivity; extreme overdoping; high-pressure synthesis

Funding

  1. Slovenian Research Agency [P1-0040]
  2. National Science Foundation [1928874]
  3. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DEAC02-76SF00515]
  4. Ministry of Science and Technology of China
  5. Natural Science Foundation of China
  6. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
  7. Division Of Materials Research [1928874] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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Traditional understanding suggests that superconductivity in cuprate materials would disappear with excess doping, but experimental results show otherwise. Experiments with cuprates prepared by high-pressure oxygenation indicate that the superconducting transition temperature Tc continues to increase beyond the critical doping level of 0.3 to over 0.6, pointing towards a need for revision of the theoretical basis for high-temperature superconductivity.
Within the cuprate constellation, one fixed star has been the superconducting dome in the quantum phase diagram of transition temperature vs. the excess charge on the Cu in the CuO2-planes, p, resulting from O-doping or cation substitution. However, a more extensive search of the literature shows that the loss of the superconductivity in favor of a normal Fermi liquid on the overdoped side should not be assumed. Many experimental results from cuprates prepared by high-pressure oxygenation show T-c converging to a fixed value or continuing to slowly increase past the upper limit of the dome of p = 0.26-0.27, up to the maximum amounts of excess oxygen corresponding to p values of 0.3 to > 0.6. These reports have been met with disinterest or disregard. Our review shows that dome-breaking trends for T-c are, in fact, the result of careful, accurate experimental work on a large number of compounds. This behavior most likely mandates a revision of the theoretical basis for high-temperature superconductivity. That excess O atoms located in specific, metastable sites in the crystal, attainable only with extreme O chemical activity under HPO conditions, cause such a radical extension of the superconductivity points to a much more substantial role for the lattice in terms of internal chemistry and bonding.

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