Title Electron/hole liquids in high $T_{c}$ superconductors and easy paths for supercarriers through the vibrational latticeElectron/hole liquids in high $T_{c}$ superconductors and easy paths for supercarriers through the vibrational lattice Author March, N.H. Matthai, C.C. Faculty/Department Faculty of Sciences. Physics Research group Department of Physics Publication type article Publication 2009London, 2009 Subject Physics Source (journal) Physics and chemistry of liquids. - London Volume/pages 47(2009):4, p. 467-470 ISSN 0031-9104 ISI 000268702900010 Carrier E Target language English (eng) Full text (Publishers DOI) Affiliation University of Antwerp Abstract In a recent study in this Journal, of manifestly BCS body-centred-cubic transition metals, we presented a picture of easy paths for the supercarriers (Cooper pairs) based on electron-lattice properties. Turning to high Tc cuprates, it has been advocated for a long time that phonons play only a minor role. That point of view is challenged here by appealing first to fairly recent experiments on the oxygen isotope effects in the CuO2 planes of high Tc materials and secondly to measurements on the enhancement of Tc by epitaxial strain. Again, we advocate easy paths for supercarriers to travel through the vibrating lattice in a high Tc family as consistent with these quite different experiments. However, these arguments apply to for such a family such that , which is the maximum Tc within a family, depends importantly on anti-ferromagnetic spin fluctuations. But, we expect the variation of within such a family to correlate with easy paths for supercarriers to travel through the vibrating lattice. E-info http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000268702900010&DestLinkType=RelatedRecords&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=ef845e08c439e550330acc77c7d2d848 http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000268702900010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=ef845e08c439e550330acc77c7d2d848 Handle