Disentangling Cooper-pair formation above the transition temperature from the pseudogap state in the cuprates

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-25

  Kondo, Takeshi ^a   Hamaya, Yoichiro ^b   Palczewski, Ari D ^a   Takeuchi, Tsunehiro ^b   Wen, J S ^c   Xu, Z J ^c   Gu, Genda ^c   Schmalian, Jörg ^a   Kaminski, Adam ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEMPERATURE;

COOPER PAIR; ENERGY SCALE; INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURES; PAIR FORMATION; PSEUDOGAP STATE; SPECTRAL WEIGHT; SPECTROSCOPIC SIGNATURES; SUPERCONDUCTING STATE;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78650615095     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1851     Document Type: Article

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