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Title: Superconductivity in La-deficient and stoichiometric La/sub 2/CuO/sub 4/

Journal Article · · Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter; (United States)

The effects of La deficiency and of impurities on the occurrence of filamentary superconductivity in La/sub 2/CuO/sub 4/ have been investigated by magnetic-susceptibility and electrical-resistivity measurements. Reducing the purity of the starting material degrades the superconductivity. La deficiency causes a fully reentrant superconducting-to-normal-state transition with decreasing temperature at temperatures below T/sub c/. This behavior clarifies the incipient reentrance which is observed in nominally stoichiometric La/sub 2/CuO/sub 4/. We associate the reentrant transition with the recently observed structural transformation from the orthorhombic to a semiconducting monoclinic phase.

Research Organization:
Rutgers University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-0849
OSTI ID:
5681278
Journal Information:
Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter; (United States), Vol. 36:13
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English