B. Buchner et al., SUPERCONDUCTING NONSUPERCONDUCTING PHASE-BOUNDARY IN THE LOW-TEMPERATURE TETRAGONAL PHASE OF (LA,RE)-SR-CU-O, Journal of low temperature physics, 95(1-2), 1994, pp. 285-291
From measurements of the structural, superconducting and normal state
transport properties of rare earth doped La2-xSrxCuO4 we find a phase
boundary between a superconducting and a non-superconducting state of
the low temperature tetragonal phase. This phase boundary is determine
d by the magnitude of the buckling of the Cu-O-Cu bonds in the CuO2 la
yers, suggesting the importance of spin-orbit coupling for the electro
nic properties of these compounds.