Revealing the high-energy electronic excitations underlying the onset of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Giannetti, Claudio ^a   Cilento, Federico ^b,c   Dal Conte, Stefano ^d   Coslovich, Giacomo ^b,c   Ferrini, Gabriele ^a   Molegraaf, Hajo ^e   Raichle, Markus ^f   Liang, Ruixing ^f   Eisaki, Hiroshi ^g   Greven, Martin ^h   Damascelli, Andrea ^f   Van Der Marel, Dirk ⁱ   Parmigiani, Fulvio ^b,j  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^h University of Minnesota   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^j SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; CALCIUM; COPPER; OXYGEN; STRONTIUM; YTTRIUM;

ARTICLE; ATOM; BINDING SITE; ELLIPSOMETRY; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXCITATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPTICAL PUMP SUPERCONTINUUM PROBE TECHNIQUE; OSCILLATOR; SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; HEAT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYSICS;

COPPER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONS; HOT TEMPERATURE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSICS;

EID: 79959246439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1354     Document Type: Article

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