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High-T c Superconductors

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One of the most intensively studied topics in the field of high temperature superconductivity was the superconductivity suppression by Pr substitution in the R1− x Pr x Ba2Cu3O7−δ systems (R = Y, rare earth). Pr is the only suppressing dopant, which forms the solid solution R1− x Pr x Ba2Cu3O7−δ in the whole concentration range without any change in the crystal structure. Three basic mechanisms of this suppression were considered [1]: (i) hole filling due to possible near 4+ valency of Pr-ion, (ii) magnetic pair breaking mechanism of Abrikosov-Gor’kov, and (iii) hole localization through disorder. It has been recently shown that PrBa2Cu3O7− δ can be superconducting [2], but still it is not clear whether this is an intrinsic property or this is due to some defects. In any case the superconductivity suppression in R1− x Pr x Ba2Cu3O7−δ for low Pr doping seems to be a legitimate property. Fehrenbacher and Rice (F-R) [3] explained the lack of superconductivity in PrBa2Cu3O7− δ through the localization of holes in hybridized Pr4f-O2pπ orbitals. According to F-R there are two kinds of Pr-ions: PrIII and PrIV, which appear in almost equal proportions. The first of them is a normal ionic state Pr3+(4f 2), the second is a mixture of the ionic state Pr4+(4f 1) and Pr3+(4f 2L) state, where L denotes a hole residing on the ligand.

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