The current-phase relation in Josephson junctions

AA Golubov, MY Kupriyanov, E Il'Ichev - Reviews of modern physics, 2004 - APS
This review provides a theoretical basis for understanding the current-phase relation (CΦR)
for the stationary (dc) Josephson effect in various types of superconducting junctions. The …

Impurity-induced states in conventional and unconventional superconductors

AV Balatsky, I Vekhter, JX Zhu - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2006 - APS
This review presents recent developments in the understanding of how impurities influence
the electronic states in the bulk properties of superconductors. The focus is on …

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of high-temperature superconductors

Ø Fischer, M Kugler, I Maggio-Aprile, C Berthod… - Reviews of Modern …, 2007 - APS
Tunneling spectroscopy has played a central role in the experimental verification of the
microscopic theory of superconductivity in classical superconductors. Initial attempts to apply …

Electrodynamics of high- superconductors

DN Basov, T Timusk - Reviews of modern physics, 2005 - APS
Recent studies of the electromagnetic response of high-T c superconductors using terahertz,
infrared, and optical spectroscopies are reviewed. In combination these experimental …

Quantum-critical theory of the spin-fermion model and its application to cuprates: Normal state analysis

A Abanov, AV Chubukov, J Schmalian - Advances in Physics, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
We present the full analysis of the normal state properties of the spin-fermion model near the
antiferromagnetic instability in two dimensions. The model describes low-energy fermions …

The doping dependence of T*–what is the real high-Tc phase diagram?

JL Tallon, JW Loram - Physica C: Superconductivity, 2001 - Elsevier
Underdoped high-Tc superconductors are frequently characterised by a temperature, T*,
below which the normal-state pseudogap opens. Two different “phase diagrams” based on …

Two gaps make a high-temperature superconductor?

S Hüfner, MA Hossain, A Damascelli… - Reports on Progress in …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the keys to the high-temperature superconductivity puzzle is the identification of the
energy scales associated with the emergence of a coherent condensate of superconducting …

Phase competition in trisected superconducting dome

IM Vishik, M Hashimoto, RH He… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
A detailed phenomenology of low energy excitations is a crucial starting point for
microscopic understanding of complex materials, such as the cuprate high-temperature …

Abrupt onset of a second energy gap at the superconducting transition of underdoped Bi2212

WS Lee, IM Vishik, K Tanaka, DH Lu, T Sasagawa… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
The superconducting gap—an energy scale tied to the superconducting phenomena—
opens on the Fermi surface at the superconducting transition temperature (T c) in …

Pseudogap from ARPES experiment: three gaps in cuprates and topological superconductivity

AA Kordyuk - Low Temperature Physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
A term first coined by Mott back in 1968 a “pseudogap” is the depletion of the electronic
density of states at the Fermi level, and pseudogaps have been observed in many systems …