Enhanced coherent oscillations in the superconducting state of underdoped YB a2 C u3 O6+x induced via ultrafast terahertz excitation

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 22, 2015, Pages

  Dakovski, Georgi L ^a   Lee, Wei Sheng ^a   Hawthorn, David G ^b,c   Garner, Niklas ^a,d   Bonn, Doug ^e   Hardy, Walter ^e   Liang, Ruixing ^e   Hoffmann, Matthias C ^a   Turner, Joshua J ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 84934342810     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.220506     Document Type: Article

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