Impact Proofs for the Work-Hardening Nature of Low- and High-TC Supercon- Ductivity. Possible Forecast of the Parameters of Superconductors Through the All-Range Temperature Tests

Abstract

The remarkable finding of this work is the linear correlation between the critical temperature of superconducting (SC) transition, Tc, and the room-temperature half-width of angular correlation of positron annihila- tion phonons (ACPAP), Go/2, in the series of powder samples of high-Tc YBCO(123) ceramic superconductors (SCs) with various deficiency of oxygen content. This correlation points to the existence of fundamental physical parameter of materials in all-temperature range,which is the crucial one for their insulator-metal-superconductor (IMSC) transition. We attribute this key-parameter to the rapid increase and then the steady (due to the minimal mechanical relaxation rate) lattice compressive deformation - the sudden and stable jump in work-hardening of crystals). The traces of this compression may be observed by different methods over a wide range of te- mperatures and used for the forecast of the parameters of technological interest for the new SCs.