Reply to the Comment on "the characteristic electronic structure needed for high-temperature superconductivity"

Journal article

The Comment by Jansen and Chandran advances no evidence to refute our basic thesis that high-temperature superconductivity can arise only in a material having sub-units each of which has a certain specific and characteristic electronic structure. The need for such an electronic structure accounts for why only a small number of basic types of high-temperature superconductor are known, the explanation of this observation providing a stringent test for any theory of high-temperature superconductivity. In contrast, experimentally observed variations in Tc in cuprate materials, accounted for by Jansen and Chandran from their super-exchange model, hardly discriminate between different theories because it would appear that many models, including the magnon theory due to Goddard and co-workers, can also explain these variations. © 1991.

Authors: Pyper, N; Edwards, P

• Journal: Chemical Physics Letters
• Volume: 185
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 409-414
• Publication date: 1991-10-18
• DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2614(91)85084-A
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• Language: English