An explanation for a universality of transition temperatures in families of copper oxide superconductors

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6978, 2004, Pages 53-55

  Chakravarty, Sudip ^a   Kee, Hae Young ^b   Völker, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; NUCLEATION; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

BELL-SHAPED CURVES; CHARGE IMBALANCE;

COPPER OXIDES;

COPPER; COPPER OXIDE; OXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CRYSTAL; CURVE FITTING; ENERGY; ENGINEERING; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 1542515163     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02348     Document Type: Article

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