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Investigation of the vanishing pattern of Cooper pairs in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ, approaching the Mott insulator.

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(Nature 454, 1072-1078)

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Review by Tetsuo Hanaguri
(Nature 454, 1062-1063)
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supermodulation effect   Evolution of the electronic excitation spectrum with strongly diminishing hole density in superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ.
 
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(Nature Physics 4, 319-326)

See also - review by Eric Hudson
(Nature Physics 4, 271)
 
supermodulation effect   Imaging the impact on cuprate superconductivity of varying the interatomic distances within individual crystal cells .
 

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(Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sci., Vol. 105, no. 9, 3203
- Mar 2008)

See also - comment by Michael R. Norman
(Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sci., Vol. 105, no. 9, 3173)

 
QPi in Na-CCOC   Quasiparticle interference of nearly optimally doped Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2 was studied using STS.
 

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(Nature Physics 3, 865 - Oct 2007)

 
NaCCOC, R map (Laplacian) 150 mV
  Atomic resolution tunneling asymmetry imaging: an intrinsic Cu-O-Cu bond-centered electronic glass with disperse 4a0-wide unidirectional domains in underdoped Ca1.88Na0.12CuO2Cl2 and Bi2Sr2Dy0.2Ca0.8Cu2O8+δ
 
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(Science 315, 1380 - Mar 2007)

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Pseudogap in LBCO.
  The pseudogap state in cuprate superconductors La2-xBaxCuO4 (x=1/8) was studied by ARPES and STM.
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(Science 314, 1914 - Dec 2006)
 
  The influence of atomic scale electron-lattice interactions on high-Tc superconductivity was imaged by STM.
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(Nature 442, 546 - Aug 2006)
 
  Atomic-scale sources and mechanism of nanoscale electronic disorder in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ were identified by STM.
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(Science 309, 1048 - Aug 2005)
 
  The doping dependence of nanoscale electronic structure in superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ was studied by STM.
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(Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 197005 - May 2005)
 
  'Checkerboard' electronic crystal state in the lightly hole-doped cuprate Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2.
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(Nature 430, 1001 - Aug 2004)

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  Magnetic Material Laboratory site (RIKEN)
  Physics Today - cover figure by Curry Taylor
 
  The relationship between atomic-scale electronic phenomena and wave-like quasiparticle states in superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ was explained in terms of an octet model of quasiparticle interference.
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(Nature 422, 592 - Apr 2003)
 
  The granular structure of high-Tc superconductivity in underdoped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ was imaged with atomic resolution, revealing inherent heterogeneity.
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(Nature 415, 412 - Jan 2002)
 
  A checkerboard-like Four Unit Cell Periodic Pattern of Quasi-Particle States Surrounding Vortex Cores in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ was discovered.
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(Science 295, 466 - Jan 2002)
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