Abstract
We have studied the effect of isotopic substitution on the superconducting in the 90-K superconductors Y and Eu by replacing with the heavier isotope . Samples with approximately 75% of the replaced by were prepared by gas-phase ion exchange. In these samples the phonon frequencies, measured by Raman spectroscopy, are reduced by the expected ∼4%. The transition temperatures, however, are found to change by less than 0.2%. This change in is much less than that expected for strongly coupled phonon-mediated superconductivity.
- Received 24 April 1987
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.58.2333
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