J C Phillips et al 2003 Rep. Prog. Phys. 66 2111 doi:10.1088/0034-4885/66/12/R02
J C Phillips1, A Saxena2 and A R Bishop2
Show affiliationsStrong electronic nanoscale disorder is present in all cuprate high-temperature superconductors, interwoven with the microscopic mechanisms responsible for both the high superconductive transition temperatures and many normal state transport anomalies. Disorder is revealed most dramatically in high-resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy experiments, while its origins at the atomic level have been studied by several other techniques. The review reassesses the significance of many other 'mean field' experiments in the context of strong disorder, with emphasis on the effects of high-mobility dopants and long-range strain fields.
74.72.-h Cuprate superconductors (high-Tc and insulating parent compounds)
74.62.-c Transition temperature variations
71.30.+h Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions
74.25.Dw Superconductivity phase diagrams
68.37.Ef Scanning tunneling microscopy (including chemistry induced with STM)
Issue 12 (December 2003)
Received 10 June 2003
Published 13 November 2003
J C Phillips et al 2003 Rep. Prog. Phys. 66 2111
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