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Article

Date of this Version

5-23-1988

Citation

Physical Review B (May 1988) 60(21)

Comments

Copyright © 1988, American Physical Society. Used by permission

Abstract

A new mechanism is proposed to explain high-Tc superconductivity in copper-oxide-based, open perovskitelike systems. It is shown that, should the oxygen ions be moving in a double-well potential, an order-of-magnitude enhancement of the electron-lattice coupling follows automatically from a consistent treatment of this motion. Both theoretical and experimental evidence for the presence of such double wells is cited.

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