Oxygen isotope effect in Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca n − 1 Cu n O 2 n + 4 + ! „ n = 1 , 2 , 3 ... single crystals

Xiao-Jia Chen,1,2,3 Bing Liang,3 Clemens Ulrich,3 Cheng-Tian Lin,3 Viktor V. Struzhkin,1 Zhigang Wu,1 Russell J. Hemley,1 Ho-kwang Mao,1 and Hai-Qing Lin4 1Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015, USA 2School of Physics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China 3Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany 4Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China !Received 28 August 2007; revised manuscript received 19 September 2007; published 9 October 2007"