Kinetics-Driven Superconducting Gap in Underdoped Cuprate Superconductors Within the Strong-Coupling Limit

Physical Review X

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Yildirim, Yucel ^a,c   Ku, Wei ^a,b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DOGUS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Condensed Matter Physics; Superconductivity

Indexed keywords

BOGOLIUBOV; GENERIC THEORY; HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; ORDER PARAMETER; QUASI PARTICLES; QUASIPARTICLE EXCITATIONS; STRONG-COUPLING; SUPERCONDUCTING GAPS; UNDERDOPED CUPRATES;

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84861542777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.1.011011     Document Type: Article

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