Delocalized fermions in underdoped cuprate superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 14, 2005, Pages

  Sutherland, Mike ^a,e   Li, S Y ^b   Hawthorn, D G ^a,c   Hill, R W ^a,f   Ronning, F ^a,g   Tanatar, M A ^a,h   Paglione, J ^a,i   Zhang, H ^a   Taillefer, Louis ^a,b,d   DeBenedictis, J ^c   Liang, Ruixing ^c,d   Bonn, D A ^c,d   Hardy, W N ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^g LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB REPULSION; DOPING CONCENTRATION; HEAT TRANSPORT; LOW-ENERGY SPECTRUM;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DOPING (ADDITIVES); FERMIONS; GROUND STATE; HEAT TRANSFER; LOW TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 18144382642     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.147004     Document Type: Article

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