The pseudogap in hole-doped cuprates: possible insights from the Kondo effect


Abstract in English

It is argued that the unusual non-states-conserving fermion density of states, deduced from the specific heat of several families of hole-doped cuprates, points towards interpretations of the pseudogap based on the suppression of a Kondo or heavy fermion-like density of states by antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations.

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