Competition between the pseudogap and superconductivity in the high-T c copper oxides

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7227, 2009, Pages 296-300

  Kondo, Takeshi ^a   Khasanov, Rustem ^b   Takeuchi, Tsunehiro ^c   Schmalian, Jörg ^a   Kaminski, Adam ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER OXIDE;

COPPER COMPOUND; ELECTRON; OXIDE; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; ENERGY YIELD; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 58249112255     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07644     Document Type: Article

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