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Ultrasound attenuation in gap-anisotropic systems

J. Moreno, P. Coleman

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9509177

Abstract

Transverse ultrasound attenuation provides a weakly-coupled probe of momentum current correlations in electronic systems. We develop a simple theory for the interpretation of transverse ultrasound attenuation coefficients in systems with nodal gap anisotropy. Applying this theory we show how ultrasound can delineate between extended-s and d-wave scenarios for the cuprate superconductors.

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