Pair breaking, "intrinsic" Tc, and the upper limit of Tc in the cuprates

Journal of Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 431-435

  Kresin, Vladimir Z ^a   Wolf, Stuart A ^b   Ovchinnikov, Yu N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Magnetic impurities; Pair breaking; Upper limit of Tc

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; DOPING (ADDITIVES); MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OXYGEN; PRESSURE EFFECTS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

APICAL OXYGEN SITE; CRITICAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; CRITICAL TEMPERATURE UPPER LIMIT; GAPLESSNESS; INTRINSIC CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC IMPURITIES; PAIR BREAKING;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0030217745     PISSN: 08961107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00727290     Document Type: Article

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