Coupling of a high-energy excitation to superconducting quasiparticles in a cuprate from coherent charge fluctuation spectroscopy

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

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4539-4544

  Mansart, Barbara ^a,b   Lorenzana, José ^c   Mann, Andreas ^a   Odeh, Ahmad ^b   Scarongella, Mariateresa ^b   Chergui, Majed ^b   Carbone, Fabrizio ^b  

^a Laboratory for Ultrafast Microscopy and Electron Scattering   (Mexico)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHERENT CHARGE FLUCTUATION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EXCITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 84875244162     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218742110     Document Type: Article

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