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Ferroelectricity and superconductivity: competing or cooperating phenomena

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Bussmann-Holder,  A.
Former Departments, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Max Planck Society;
Department Electronic Structure Theory (Ali Alavi), Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Max Planck Society;
Department Physical Chemistry of Solids (Joachim Maier), Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Max Planck Society;
Department Nanochemistry (Bettina V. Lotsch), Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Max Planck Society;

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Simon,  A.
Former Departments, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Max Planck Society;

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Bussmann-Holder, A., Simon, A., & Bishop, A. R. (2011). Ferroelectricity and superconductivity: competing or cooperating phenomena. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 226(2), 177-185.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000E-BFFB-1
Abstract
The discovery of high temperature superconductivity in layered systems has evoked a heated discussion about the microscopic electron (hole) pairing mechanism. In particular, the proximity of these systems to magnetic phases has been taken as evidence for a purely electronic mechanism. However, structural anomalies and unconventional isotope effects suggest that the lattice plays a crucial role and must be incorporated in modeling the mechanism. Here we show that polarizability effects and Jahn-Teller centers are of special importance, since these enable dynamical charge transfer, interband interactions, polaron and bipolaron formation. In this respect the layered superconductors approach ferroelectrics, where dynamical covalency is known to trigger the structural instability.