Electron-Phonon Interaction in the High- Cuprates in the Framework of the Van Hove Scenario.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Condensed Matter Physics Volume 2010, Article ID 472636, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2010/472636 Review Article Electron-Phonon Interaction in the High-TC Cuprates in the Framework of the Van Hove Scenario Jacqueline Bouvier and Julien Bok Solid State Physics Laboratory, ESPCI ParisTech, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France Correspondence should be addressed to Jacqueline Bouvier, jacqueline.bouvier@espci.fr Received 17 June 2009; Revised 23 September 2009; Accepted 30 November 2009 Academic Editor: Sasha Alexandrov Copyright © 2010 J. Bouvier and J. Bok. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ¨ Electron-lattice interaction was the original idea of Muller and Berdnorz who chose copper oxides, because of the strong Jahn- Teller effect of the Cu ion leading to the formation of bipolarons. Later several experimental features led to theoretical models based on strong electronic correlations. The high- TC superconductors cuprates are quasi-bidimensional (2D) and thus lead to the existence of Van Hove singularities (VHs) in the band structure, that is, a peak in the electronic density of states. The presence of VHs near the Fermi-level in the cuprates is now well established. In this context we show that many physical properties of these materials can be explained using electron-phonon interaction, in particular the high critical temperature TC , the anomalous isotope effect, the superconducting gap and its anisotropy, and the marginal Fermi-liquid properties. These compounds present a