Noninteracting Cooper pairs inside a pseudogap

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3372-3380

  Tchernyshyov, Oleg ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

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EID: 0000993262     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.3372     Document Type: Article

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