Nature. 2021 Aug;596(7870):68-73. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03683-0. Epub 2021 Aug 04.

Pseudogap in a crystalline insulator doped by disordered metals.

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Sae Hee Ryu, Minjae Huh, Do Yun Park, Chris Jozwiak, Eli Rotenberg, Aaron Bostwick, Keun Su Kim

PMID: 34349290 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03683-0

Abstract

Key to our understanding of how electrons behave in crystalline solids is the band structure that connects the energy of electron waves to their wavenumber. Even in phases of matter with only short-range order (liquid or amorphous solid), the coherent part of electron waves still has a band structure. Theoretical models for the band structure of liquid metals were formulated more than five decades ago

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