Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 306106, 27 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/306106
Review Article

Manifestations of the Electron-Phonon Coupling in the Spectroscopy of High-Temperature Superconductors

1Cross-Correlated Materials Research Group (CMRG), ASI, RIKEN, Wako 351-0198, Japan
2Russian Research Centre, Kurchatov Institute, Moscow 123182, Russia

Received 28 June 2009; Accepted 28 July 2009

Academic Editor: Sasha Alexandrov

Copyright © 2010 A. S. Mishchenko. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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