Superconducting ruthenate viewed from the kinematic interaction mechanism.pdfVIP

a 12 February 1996 __ _- PHYSICS LETTERS A iii3 ELSEVIER Physics Letters A 2 11 ( 1996) 18 1- 183 Superconducting ruthenate viewed from the kinematic interaction mechanism Yoshimasa Murayama a, Valery A. Ivanov bv’,Sadao Nakajima ’ a Advanced Reseurch Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., Hatoyama, Saitama 350-03. Japan ’ Institutefor Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444, Japun ’ SRL, ISTEC, I-10-13 Shinonome, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135. Japan Received 23 September 1995; accepted for publication 25 October 1995 Communicated by V.M. Agranovich Abstract We claim that superconducting ruthenate, newly discovered by Maeno et al., is a strong electron correlation system similar to cuprates. On the basis of the kinematic interaction model proposed by us for cuprates, we predict that the critical temperature, being around 1 K for the discovered nominally stoichiometric ruthenate, should substantially increase and then decrease on reducing the number of 4d electrons, exhibiting the familiar bell-shaped dependence on the carrier density. Maeno and coworkers [l] recently reported that ate as well as in cuprates. Therefore, the discovery of layered perovskite Sr,RuO, shows superconductivity new