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This chapter describes a different work we performed to investigate whether the spin or charge degrees of freedom were responsible for the nodal gap in underdoped cuprates.
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Kapon, I. (2019). Opening a Nodal Gap by Fluctuating Spin-Density-Wave in Lightly Doped La\(_{2-x}\)Sr\(_x\)CuO\(_4\). In: Searching for 2D Superconductivity in La2−xSrxCuO4 Single Crystals. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23061-6_4
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