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    Isotope Effect and Phonon Softening in Superconducting Borocarbides and Boronitrides
    (1998) Hakioǧlu, Tuğrul; Ivanov, V. A.
    The isotope effect in the recently disvovered class o superconductors LuNi2B2C and La3Ni2B2N3 is investigated in the context of electron-squezed phonon interaction renormalizing the Ni-d electron-electron correlations. Squeezed phonon mode originates from the anharmonic character of the tetragonal Ni-B structure and is polarized in the vortical direction to the Ni layers. The isotope effect arises as a result of the zero point motion of the Ni-Ni d-electron hopping amplitude dominantly due to this vertical phonon mode. Within this model the isotope exponent is calculated to be αB ≤ 0.20 as compared to the recently found experimental value αexp B=0.27∓0.10. Finally, the phonon frequency softening predicted by our model eletron-phonon interaction is discussed within the context of recent experiments on the relevant boron A1g softening.
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    Phonon squeezing in superconducting borocarbides
    (Elsevier BV * North-Holland, 1994) Hakioglu, T.; Ivanov, V. A.; Shumovsky, A. S.; Tanatar, Bilal
    The recently discovered superconductor LuNi2B2C is investigated in the context of strong electron-electron correlations modulated by a squeezed phonon mode propagating in the perpendicular direction to the layers with longitudinal polarization. The squeezed phonons arise in the anharmonic lattice expansion since the linear electron-phonon interaction vanishes due to the structure of the NiB4 tetrahedra. The observed weak isotope effect and small dependence of Tc on pressure is qualitatively understood within the framework of this model. © 1994.