EVIDENCE FOR A-B-PLANE COUPLING TO LONGITUDINAL C-AXIS PHONONS IN HIGH-T(C) SUPERCONDUCTORS

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REEDYK, M
TIMUSK, T
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[1] Department of Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.2705
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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We show that the strong absorption structure observed in the a-b-plane optical conductivity of the high-T(c) superconductors is correlated with c-axis longitudinal optical (LO(c)) phonons. This suggests a resolution to the long-standing controversy over the origin of these features. The interaction with LO(c) phonons is forbidden when the incident wave vector q is normal to the c axis which leads to the surprising result, confirmed with experiments, that the optical properties along a or b are different when measured on the a-b-plane face and a face containing the c axis.
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