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标题：Hard-Wired Dopant Networks and the Prediction of High Transition Temperatures in Ceramic Superconductors
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作者：J. C. Phillips
期刊名称：Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
印刷版ISSN：1687-8108
电子版ISSN：1687-8124
出版年度：2010
卷号：2010
DOI：10.1155/2010/250891
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：I review the multiple successes of the discrete hard-wired dopant network model ZZIP, and comment on the equally numerous failures of continuum models, in describing and predicting the properties of ceramic superconductors. The prediction of transition temperatures can be regarded in several ways, either as an exacting test of theory, or as a tool for identifying theoretical rules for defining new homology models. Popular “first principle” methods for predicting transition temperatures in conventional crystalline superconductors have failed for cuprate HTSC, as have parameterized models based on CuO2 planes (with or without apical oxygen). Following a path suggested by Bayesian probability, it was found that the glassy, self-organized dopant network percolative model is so successful that it defines a new homology class appropriate to ceramic superconductors. The reasons for this success in an exponentially complex (non-polynomial complete, NPC) problem are discussed, and a critical comparison is made with previous polynomial (PC) theories. The predictions are successful for the superfamily of all ceramics, including new non-cuprates based on FeAs in place of CuO2.