“…For example, in HgBa 2 Ca 2 Cu 3 O 4 , which has the highest T c among HTSCs, T c rises from 135 K to 164 K in a hydrostatic pressure [2]. In addition to mechanical pressure [3,4,5,6,7], the effect of epitaxial strain in thin films grown on single crystalline substrates [8,9,10], and the effect of "chemical pressure", where the lattice constants are varied through substitution of ions with different ionic radii [11,12,13], have been studied so far. The effects of epitaxial strain and "chemical pressure" on T c are consistent with the mechanical pressure in many cases [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10], but the mechanism of the T c changes has not been understood yet.…”