Disappearance of nodal gap across the insulator-superconductor transition in a copper-oxide superconductor

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Peng, Yingying ^a   Meng, Jianqiao ^a   Mou, Daixiang ^a   He, Junfeng ^a   Zhao, Lin ^a   Wu, Yue ^a   Liu, Guodong ^a   Dong, Xiaoli ^a   He, Shaolong ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a   Wang, Xiaoyang ^a   Peng, Qinjun ^b   Wang, Zhimin ^b   Zhang, Shenjin ^b   Yang, Feng ^b   Chen, Chuangtian ^b   Xu, Zuyan ^b   Lee, T K ^c   Zhou, X J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER OXIDE;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INSULATION; OXIDE; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; RESOLUTION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DOPING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; ENERGY; FIELD EMISSION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INSULATOR SUPERCONDUCTOR TRANSITION; MAGNETISM; PHOTON; RADIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 84884842115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3459     Document Type: Article

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