Breakdown of one-parameter scaling in quantum critical scenarios for high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Phillips, Philip ^a,b   Chamon, Claudio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM CRITICAL POINT; QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITION;

COPPER COMPOUNDS; CORRELATION METHODS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 27144510956     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.107002     Document Type: Article

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