Non-Fermi-liquid d-wave metal phase of strongly interacting electrons

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7430, 2013, Pages 39-44

  Jiang, Hong Chen ^a   Block, Matthew S ^b   Mishmash, Ryan V ^c   Garrison, James R ^c   Sheng, D N ^d   Motrunich, Olexei I ^e   Fisher, Matthew P A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER OXIDE;

ELECTRON; FLUID; KINETIC ENERGY; PHASE TRANSITION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ELECTRON; FERMION; LIQUID; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SUPERCONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84871810138     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11732     Document Type: Article

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