Superconducting properties of Pr123 and microscopic structural differences between the superconducting and non-superconducting Pr123 crystals are reviewed. It is shown that the variety of physical properties of Pr123 is closely related to Cu deficiency at the chain site and our experimental results are consistently explained with a model that the Pr 4f-O 2p hybridization forms a narrow band and carriers are localized by a kind of atomic disorder in non-superconducting crystals.
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Nishihara, Y., Zou, Z., Ye, J., Oka, K., Minawa, T., Kawanaka, H., & Bando, H. (1999). Superconducting and non-superconducting PrBa2Cu3O7. Bulletin of Materials Science, 22(3), 257–263. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02749929
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