Cuprate high-Tc superconductors

19 August 2008
Kyle M. Sheen and J.C. Seamus Davis

In solid-state physics two different paradigms are typically applied. The first is a local picture, in which one visualizes the quantum states of electrons in atomic orbitals or at impurity atoms in real space (r-space). The second is the momentum or reciprocal space (k-space) picture, where electrons are viewed as de Broglie waves completely delocalized throughout the material.

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