High-Tc Copper Oxide Superconductors and Related Novel Materials

1. Electronic Phase Separation and Electron–Phonon Coupling in Cuprate Superconductors
Andreas Bill, Vladimir Hizhnyakov, Götz Seibold

2. The Search for Higher Tc in Houston
C. W. Chu

3. From Granular Superconductivity to High Tc
Guy Deutscher

4. Alex and the Origin of High-Temperature Superconductivity
Takeshi Egami

5. Encounters with Alex
Kristian Fossheim

6. The Barocaloric Effect: A Spin-off of the Discovery of High-Temperature Superconductivity
Albert Furrer

7. Personal Reflections on High-T

c
Superconductivity
John B. Goodenough

8. NMR of Cuprate Superconductors: Recent Developments
Michael Jurkutat, Jonas Kohlrautz, Steven Reichardt, Andreas Erb, Grant V. M. Williams, Jürgen Haase

9. Towards an Understanding of Hole Superconductivity
J. E. Hirsch

10. Short Scale Phase Separation of Polarons
Victor V. Kabanov

11. Jahn-Teller-Effect Induced Superconductivity in Copper Oxides: Theoretical Developments
Hiroshi Kamimura, Osamu Sugino, Jaw-Shen Tsai, Hideki Ushio

12. Isotope Effect on the Transition Temperature T

c
in Fe-Based Superconductors: The Current Status
Rustem Khasanov

13. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance in Superconducting Cuprates
Boris I. Kochelaev

14. Electron-Lattice Interaction and High Tc Superconductivity
Vladimir Kresin

15. Raman Study of the Anharmonicity in YBa2Cu3Ox

Efthymios Liarokapis

16. Inter-site Pair Superconductivity: Origins and Recent Validation Experiments
Dragan Mihailovic

17. Dynamical Lattice Distortions in High-Tc Cuprate Superconductors
Jose Mustre de León

18. Exciting Times in Condensed-Matter Physics
Hans Rudolf Ott

19. Intimacy Between Local Lattice and High Temperature Superconductivity: Perspective View on Undeniable Facts
Hiroyuki Oyanagi

20. Chemical Aspects of the Phase Separation in Alkali Metal Intercalated Iron Selenide Superconductors
Ekaterina Pomjakushina, Kazimierz Conder

21. Essential Role of Barium for Reaching the Highest Tc’s in Superconducting Cuprates
Bernard Raveau

22. Scientific Remembrances and Some Comments
Attilio Rigamonti

23. Method for Accurate Determination of the Electron Contribution: Specific Heat of Ba0.59K0.41Fe2As2

Costel R. Rotundu, Thomas R. Forrest, Norman E. Phillips, Robert J. Birgeneau

24. Thermal and Quantum Critical Properties of Overdoped La2−x
Sr
x
CuO4

Toni Schneider

25. Scientific Collaboration with Warm Relations
A. Shengelaya

26. Oxygen Isotope Effect Resulting from Polaron-Induced Superconductivity in Cuprates
Stephen Weyeneth

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