Protected nodes and the collapse of fermi arcs in high-Tc cuprate superconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Kanigel, A ^a   Chatterjee, U ^a   Randeria, M ^b   Norman, M R ^c   Souma, S ^a   Shi, M ^a,d   Li, Z Z ^e   Raffy, H ^e   Campuzano, J C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BISMUTH COMPOUNDS; ENERGY GAP; MEAN FIELD THEORY; OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS; PHOTOEMISSION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

D-WAVE GAP; PSEUDOGAP PHASE; RESISTIVE TRANSITION;

FERMI LEVEL;

EID: 35148882482     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.157001     Document Type: Article

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