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Nature Physics 2, 441 - 442 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys355

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics

Superconductivity: Death of a Fermi surface

Kyle McElroy1

  1. Kyle McElroy is in the Materials Sciences Division, Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. e-mail: kpmcelroy@lbl.gov


Every metal, semimetal and doped semiconductor has a Fermi surface that determines its physical properties. A new state of matter within the 'pseudogap' state of a high-temperature superconductor destroys the Fermi surface, the process of which provides information about the new state.

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