Quantum critical scaling at the edge of Fermi liquid stability in a cuprate superconductor

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 8440-8444

  Butch, Nicholas P ^a   Jin, Kui ^a   Kirshenbaum, Kevin ^a   Greene, Richard L ^a   Paglione, Johnpierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER ION;

ARTICLE; FERMION; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ALGORITHMS; COPPER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHASE TRANSITION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84861857666     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120273109     Document Type: Article

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