The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in the copper oxides in 1986 triggered
a huge amount of innovative scientific inquiry. In the almost three decades since, much has …

This article reviews the physics of high-temperature superconductors from the point of view
of the doping of a Mott insulator. The basic electronic structure of cuprates is reviewed …

In high-temperature cuprate superconductors, the superconducting transition temperature (T
c) depends on the number of CuO2 planes in the structural unit and the maximum T c is …

The last decade witnessed significant progress in angle-resolved photoemission
spectroscopy (ARPES) and its applications. Today, ARPES experiments with 2-meV energy …

The spectral energy gap is an important signature that defines states of quantum matter:
insulators, density waves and superconductors have very different gap structures. The …

High-temperature superconductivity in cuprates emerges out of a highly enigmatic
'pseudogap'metal phase. The mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity is probably …

Tunneling spectroscopy has played a central role in the experimental verification of the
microscopic theory of superconductivity in classical superconductors. Initial attempts to apply …

The parent compounds of the copper oxide high-transition-temperature (high-T c)
superconductors are unusual insulators (so-called Mott insulators). Superconductivity arises …

One of the first theoretical proposals for understanding high-temperature superconductivity
in the cuprates was Anderson's RVB theory using a Gutzwiller projected BCS wavefunction …

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of the high-T c superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+
δreveals weak, incommensurate, spatial modulations in the tunneling conductance. Images …