Pairing in a Dry Fermi Sea (IMAGE)

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Pairing in a Dry Fermi Sea

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In conventional, low-temperature superconductivity (left), so-called Cooper pairing arises from the presence of an electron Fermi sea. In the pseudogap regime of the cuprate superconductors (right), parts of the Fermi sea are "dried out" and the charge-carrier pairing arises through an increase in the strength of the spin-fluctuation pairing interaction as the temperature is lowered.

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