Optimum inhomogeneity of local lattice distortions in La 2CuO4+y

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

Volumn 109, Issue 39, 2012, Pages 15685-15690

  Poccia, Nicola ^a,b   Ricci, Alessandro ^a,c   Campi, Gaetano ^d   Fratini, Michela ^a,e   Puri, Alessandro ^f   Di Gioacchino, Daniele ^f   Marcelli, Augusto ^f   Reynolds, Michael ^b   Burghammer, Manfred ^b   Lal Saini, Naurang ^a   Aeppli, Gabriel ^g   Bianconi, Antonio ^a,h,i  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c DESY   (Germany)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e Fermi Center   (Italy)

^f INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI FRASCATI   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h RICMASS Via Dei Sabelli 119A   (Italy)

ⁱ Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics   (Italy)

Author keywords

Granular superconductors; Imaging phase separation; Multiband superconductivity in density wave metals; Scale free heterogeneity; X ray illumination

Indexed keywords

COPPER DERIVATIVE; COPPER OXIDE; LANTHANUM CUPRATE; OXYGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; MICROSCOPY; MODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOICHIOMETRY; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84866847185     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208492109     Document Type: Article

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