Amperean pairing and the pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Patrick A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Condensed matter physics; Superconductivity

Indexed keywords

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; EXPERIMENTS; FERMI SURFACE; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; VECTORS;

ATTRACTIVE FORCE; BARDEEN-COOPER-SCHRIEFFER THEORY; HIGH TC SUPERCONDUCTORS; MICROSCOPIC PAIRING; PHASE FLUCTUATION; QUASIPARTICLE SPECTRUM; RESONATING VALENCE BONDS; SUPERCONDUCTING FLUCTUATIONS;

OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 84905482177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031017     Document Type: Article

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