Mottness collapse and T-linear resistivity in cuprate superconductors

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1941, 2011, Pages 1574-1598

  Phillips, Philip ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Mottness; Pseudo gap; Strange metal; Superconductivity

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON GAS; FERMIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

CRITICAL POINTS; CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTOR; CUPRATES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; FERMI GAS; INTERACTING SYSTEM; LENGTH SCALE; LOW ENERGIES; MOTTNESS; NORMAL STATE; ONE-PARAMETER SCALING; PSEUDO-GAP; QUANTUM CRITICALITY; SHORT-RANGE REPULSION; SPECTRAL WEIGHT TRANSFER; STRANGE METAL; T-LINEAR RESISTIVITY;

METALS;

EID: 79955398949     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0004     Document Type: Review

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