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Physics of the Pseudogap State: Spin-Charge Locking

Superconductivity 2015-06-25 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The properties of the pseudogap phase above Tc of the high-Tc cuprate superconductors are described by showing that the Anderson-Nambu SU(2) spinors of an RVB spin gap 'lock' to those of the electron charge system because of the resulting improvement of kinetic energy. This enormously extends the range of the vortex liquid state in these materials. As a result it is not clear that the spinons are ever truly deconfined. A heuristic description of the electrodynamics of this pseudogap-vortex liquid state is proposed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0504453,
  title  = {Physics of the Pseudogap State: Spin-Charge Locking},
  author = {Philip Anderson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0504453},
  year   = {2015}
}

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