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Vacancy Ordering in the Basal Plane of YB2Cu3Oz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

L. T. Wille
Affiliation:
Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
A. Berera
Affiliation:
Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
D. De Fontaine
Affiliation:
Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
S. C. Moss
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Houston, TX 77004
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Abstract

The ordering in the Cu-O basal plane of the high Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3Oz is investigated. Asymmetric pairwise interactions between nearest and next nearest neighbors are assumed. Ordering instabilities in two-dimensional k-space are mapped out as a function of the interactions and the ordered ground state superstructures consisting of occupied and empty oxygen sites are determined. A temperature-composition phase diagram is calculated by means of the Cluster Variation Method. The thermodynamic behavior of the superconducting compound is discussed in the light of these results.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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