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Charge confinement effect in cuprate superconductors: an explanation for the normal-state resistivity and pseudogap

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The fact that the stripe phase and pseudogap in the cuprate superconductors occur in the same doping regime is emphasized. A model based on charge confinement in self-organized nanometer-scale stripe fragments is proposed to understand various generic features of the normal-state energy gap including the magnitude of the gap, its anti-correlation with the superconducting gap, and the d-wave symmetry in its κ-dependence. This model also provides a basis for understanding other anomalous normal-state properties such as the linear temperature dependence of electrical resistivity.

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Received 7 December 1998

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Tsuei, C., Doderer, T. Charge confinement effect in cuprate superconductors: an explanation for the normal-state resistivity and pseudogap. Eur. Phys. J. B 10, 257–262 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510050853

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