Related papers: Cuprates: experiment vs. quasiparticle theory
In this talk I will briefly review our present theoretical understanding of some of the important issues in the high Tc cuprates. In view of its success, at a qualitative level and some times quantitative level, the theory initiated by…
Related to the electronic structure of cuprate high-Tc superconductors there are two prevailing views: In one view, Pines and collaborators argue that cuprates consist of two electronic subsystems: one with localized spins and the other…
Much of what I have to say in the following (not all) is contained in my Informal History published in 2010 in the Intl Journ of Mod Phys and available as arXiv:1011.2736 [cond-mat]. But because the literature on the subject continues to…
This paper comments on the recently reported quantum oscillations in underdoped YBCO crystals. The implications to other experiments and some hurdles to validating the proposed interpretation are discussed.
A brief overview is given of the problem of high temperature superconductivity in the cuprates, with an emphasis on theoretical ideas.
Quasirational (pro-$p$)presentations are studied. The difference between aspherical and quasirational presentations sheds some light on the Whitehead's conjecture. We confirm expectations O.V. Melnikov on existence of a proper class of…
Here I provide additional experimental information and criticise the analysis, modelling, interpretation and claims presented in the recent paper [Nature Communications 11, 4942 (2020)]. I argue that the authors have no clear experimental…
The claims made for the Resonating Valence Bond ideas for the cuprates in a recent paper by Anderson et al. on the basis of a variational calculation are discussed.
The current status of the theory of and the experimental evidence for color transparency are reviewed. The problems with interpretation of quasielastic scattering on nuclei are discussed to some detail.
In cuprates, as doping $p$ is reduced from the overdoped side through the quantum critical point $p^*$, a transition in Hall number density of carriers is observed, in which this number of carriers reduces from $1+p$ holes per copper site…
I argue that quantum optical experiments that purport to refute Bohr's principle of complementarity (BPC) fail in their aim. Some of these experiments try to refute complementarity by refuting the so called particle-wave duality relations,…
After a very brief review of twentieth century elementary particle physics, prospects for the next century are discussed. First and most important are technological limits of opportunities; next, the future experimental program, and finally…
A method is proposed to test for the nature of the pseudogap phase in cuprates using the recently developed technique of Fourier transform scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We show that the observed quasiparticle interference patterns depend…
This is a nontechnical Perspective Commentary on the recent developments in cuprate STM and their ramifications for the theories of the pseudogap state, focusing on the paper by Hanaguri et al. [Nature 430, 1001 (2004)].
There is increasing circumstantial evidence that the cuprate superconductors, and correlated-electron materials generally, defy simple materials categorization because of their proximity to one or more continuous zero-temperature phase…
We comment on a letter publised in PRL by: D. Coffey and L. Coffey, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 70}, 1529 (1993) where it is claimed that the dip structure above the gap is evidence for d-wave pairing. We show that the analysis in this letter is…
Comment on P. Walker, Nature 453 (2008) 864, http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7197/full/453864a.html
A variational theory is proposed for the quasiparticle excitation in high T$_{c}$ cuprates. The theory goes beyond the usual Gutzwiller projected mean field state description by including the spin-charge recombination effect in the RVB…
We show that the recent reinterpretation of oxygen isotope effects in cuprate superconductors by D. R. Harshman et al. is mathematically and physically incorrect violating the Anderson theorem and the Coulomb law.
By means of a new canonical transformation for the one-band Hubbard model at half filling we show the existence of Cooper pairs formed by strongly interacting quasiparticles.