EVIDENCE FOR AN AXIAL OXYGEN-CENTERED LATTICE FLUCTUATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION IN YBA2CU3O7

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DELEON, JM
CONRADSON, SD
BATISTIC, I
BISHOP, AR
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.1675
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O4 [物理学];
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The axial oxygen contributions to the Cu K-edge, polarized, extended x-ray-absorption fine structure of YBa2Cu3O7 are analyzed from 10T105 K, using a novel approach in which the radial distribution function is directly calculated from model potentials. The best fit is obtained with a double-well potential with two nearly equally populated O(4) sites 0.13 apart. The site separation decreases 0.02 in a region near Tc. This perturbation in the structure is accompanied by a large increase of the tunneling frequency of 1/480 K between the two wells, suggesting a coupling between superconducting fluctuations and nonlinear phonons. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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