Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 393526, 17 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/393526
Review Article

Local Electron-Lattice Interactions in High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors

1Physik-Institut Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstraße 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
2Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany

Received 26 June 2009; Accepted 29 July 2009

Academic Editor: Sasha Alexandrov

Copyright © 2010 Hugo Keller and Annette Bussmann-Holder. 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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