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A suggested 4 x 4 structure in underdoped cuprate superconductors: a Wigner supersolid

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

A wave function is proposed for the "4×44\times 4" inhomogeneous structures observed on cuprate superconductors. It is based on the Gutzwiller-RVB technique proposed in recent papers, and consists of a Wigner solid of hole pairs embedded in a sea of d-wave spin singlet pairs. Arguments are given that the nodal quasiparticles may remain unscattered and even superconducting on such a structure.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0406038,
  title  = {A suggested 4 x 4 structure in underdoped cuprate superconductors: a Wigner supersolid},
  author = {P. W. Anderson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0406038},
  year   = {2007}
}

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3 pages, 1 figure