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Quasiparticle tunneling spectra of both hole-doped (p-type) and electron-doped (n-type) cuprates are studied using a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope. The results reveal that neither the pairing symmetry nor the pseudogap phenomenon is universal among all cuprates, and that the response of n-type cuprates to quantum impurities is drastically different from that of the p-type cuprates. The only ubiquitous features among all cuprates appear to be the strong electronic correlation and the nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic Cu2+-Cu2+ coupling in the CuO2 planes.
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Yeh, NC., Chen, CT., Vasquez, R.P. et al. Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopic Studies of the Pairing State of Cuprate Superconductors. Journal of Low Temperature Physics 131, 435–444 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022934832360
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