Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
2 p.m., Thursday, November 16, 2006
Room 1201, Physics Building
Why Cuprate Superconductors are So Difficult to Understand
-- Learning from Transport Properties --
Yoichi Ando
(Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan)
Abstract: Already two decades have passed since the high-Tc
superconductivity was discovered in cuprates, but its mechanism remains one of
the biggest unsolved problems in the contemporary physics. The difficulty lies
in the lack of fundamental understanding of the electronic structure of cuprates,
which concerns the physics of “doped Mott insulator” where strong electron
correlations preclude conventional theoretical approach. In this talk, I will
illustrate how the transport properties of cuprates starkly demonstrate the
unconventional electronic nature, and discuss the essential ingredients for its
understanding inferred from our experiments.
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Host: Greene
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