Quasiparticle scattering interference in high-temperature superconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Wang, Qiang Hua ^a   Lee, Dung Hai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTOR; DENSITY; ENERGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037220275     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.020511     Document Type: Article

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