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Nodal Quasiparticles versus Phase Fluctuations in High Tc Superconductors: An Intermediate Scenario

Qijin Chen, Ioan Kosztin, K. Levin

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/9912314

Abstract

We explore a BCS Bose Einstein crossover scenario for 0 ≤ T ≤ Tc and its implications for the superfluid density and specific heat. The low lying excitations consist of nodal (fermionic) quasi-particles as well as excited (bosonic) pair states. Semi-quantitative comparison with cuprate data is reasonable, with no compelling indications for Landau parameter effects.

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