c-axis optical sum rule and a possible new collective mode in La2-xSrxCuO4

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Kuzmenko, A B ^a   Tombros, N ^a   Molegraaf, H J A ^a   Gruninger M ^b   Van Der Marel, D ^a   Uchida, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ENERGY GAP; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

FERRELL-GLOVER-TINKHAM SUM RULE; LANTHANUM STRONIUM COPPER OXIDES; LOW FREQUENCY SPECTRAL WEIGHT; OPTICAL CONDUCTIVITY;

LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0042887360     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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