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Nature Physics 2, 593 - 594 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys398

Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Materials physics

Superconductivity: Pairing glue or inelastic tunnelling?

D. J. Scalapino1

  1. D. J. Scalapino is in the Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9530, USA. e-mail: djs@physics.ucsb.edu


Scanning tunnelling microscopy studies have identified a vibrational phonon mode in a high-temperature superconductor, but is it evidence for an electron–phonon pairing interaction or is it a signature of an inelastic tunnelling channel?

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