High-energy spin and charge excitations in electron-doped copper oxide superconductors

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ishii, K ^a   Fujita, M ^b   Sasaki, T ^b   Minola, M ^c   Dellea, G ^c   Mazzoli, C ^c   Kummer, K ^d   Ghiringhelli, G ^c   Braicovich, L ^c   Tohyama, T ^e,i   Tsutsumi, K ^b   Sato, K ^b   Kajimoto, R ^a   Ikeuchi, K ^f   Yamada, K ^g   Yoshida, M ^a,h   Kurooka, M ^h   Mizuki, J ^a,h  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NEUTRON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Japan)

^g INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS STRUCTURE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^h KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER OXIDE;

ARTICLE; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTRON; ELECTRON DOPED COPPER OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR; MEASUREMENT; NEUTRON SCATTERING; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPIN AND CHARGE EXCITATION; SUPERCONDUCTOR; X RAY;

EID: 84899683492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4714     Document Type: Article

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