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The observation of self-organized charge, segregation in cuprate superconductors is used to explain two of the most intriguing normalstate properties, namely the pseudogap in the density of states below the temperature T * and the unconventional temperature dependence of the in-plane resistivity. The doped holes reside in nanometer-scale grains due to the fragmentation of the charge stripes, similar to the case of quantum dots, with intervening antiferromagnetic semiconducting/insulating domains. The size of these grains scales with doping concentration. Based on charge confinement in such nano-grains, we propose a model to understand the temperature dependent in-plane resistivity as well as magnitude of the pseudogap as a function of doping. The charge transport is dominated by one- or two-dimensional diffusion at temperatures above T *, a cross-over to quasi-ballistic transport inside the grains below T *, and eventually variable-range hopping at low temperatures. The pseudogap can be identified with the spectroscopic gap of the quantum dots including the quantum fluctuations of the superconducting order parameter. The intergrain coupling via particle exchange allows a macroscopic phase-coherent superconducting state to establish below the critical temperature T c .
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Doderer, T., Tsuei, C.C. (1999). Self-organized charge confinement in cuprate superconductors: Effects on the normal-and superconducting state. In: Kramer, B. (eds) Advances in Solid State Physics 39. Advances in Solid State Physics, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0107494
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