Energy gaps in the failed high-Tc superconductor La 1.875 Ba 0.125 CuO 4

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-123

  He, Rui Hua ^a   Tanaka, Kiyohisa ^a,b,c   Mo, Sung Kwan ^a,b   Sasagawa, Takao ^a,d   Fujita, Masaki ^e   Adachi, Tadashi ^f   Mannella, Norman ^a,b,g   Yamada, Kazuyoshi ^e   Koike, Yoji ^f   Hussain, Zahid ^b   Shen, Zhi Xun ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR METAL BOUNDARIES; TEMPERATURE;

ANGLE-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HIGH TC SUPERCONDUCTORS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SUPERCONDUCTING GAPS; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE; UNDERDOPED REGIME;

GROUND STATE;

EID: 59349119695     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1159     Document Type: Article

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