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Disentangling the Signatures of Precursor Superconductivity in Cuprates

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The short coherence length (\(\xi _0\sim 1\) nm) of Cooper pairs in cuprate high-\(\mathrm {T}_\mathrm {C}\) superconductors allows for a variety of fascinating phenomena in contrast to low-\(\mathrm {T}_\mathrm {C}\) materials, which have homogeneous SC properties on length scales of the order of several hundreds or thousands of nanometers [1].

Parts of Chap. 6 are reprinted with permission from E. Balding et al., Physical Review B 95, 024501. Copyright 2017 American Physical Society.

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