Phenomenological theory of the protected nodes and collapse of the Fermi arcs in underdoped cuprate superconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Chen, Qijin ^a   Levin, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 49149089823     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.020513     Document Type: Article

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19. See footnote 42 of Ref.. We have also checked that below Tc the Fermi arc length is not sensitive to the power law of γ (T).