High-Tc Cuprate Superconductivity in a Nutshell
arXiv:cond-mat/0409285 · doi:10.1002/pssb.200460037
Abstract
Since the discovery of high-Tc cuprate superconductivity in 1986 many new experimental techniques and theoretical concepts have been developed. In particular it was shown that the BCS theory of d-wave superconductivity describes semi-quantitatively the high-Tc superconductivity. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that Volovik's approach is extremely useful for finding the quasiparticle properties in the vortex state. Here we survey these developments and forecast future directions.
11 pages, 3 figures