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How should we interpret the two transport relaxation times in the cuprates ?

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We observe that the appearance of two transport relaxation times in the various transport coefficients of cuprate metals may be understood in terms of scattering processes that discriminate between currents that are even, or odd under the charge conjugation operator. We develop a transport equation that illustrates these ideas and discuss its experimental and theoretical consequences.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9609009,
  title  = {How should we interpret the two transport relaxation times in the cuprates ?},
  author = {P. Coleman and A. J. Schofield and A. M. Tsvelik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9609009},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, RevTeX with 8 postscript figures included. To appear in ``Non Fermi Liquid Physics'', J. Phys:Cond. Matt. (1997)