Controlled vaporization of the superconducting condensate in cuprate superconductors by femtosecond photoexcitation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Kusar, P ^a   Kabanov, V V ^a   Demsar, J ^a,c   Mertelj, T ^a   Sugai, S ^b   Mihailovic, D ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; PHOTOEXCITATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SPIN DYNAMICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; VAPORIZATION;

CONDENSATION ENERGIES; CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTORS; ENERGY DENSITIES; FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALES; LATTICE ENERGIES; PAIR BREAKING; QUASI PARTICLES; SUPERCONDUCTING CONDENSATES; SUPERCONDUCTING STATES; TIME SCALES; ULTRASHORT INTENSE LASER PULSES;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 56849099128     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.227001     Document Type: Article

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