New physics of metals: fermi surfaces without Fermi liquids.

Anderson, P W · Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A · 1995

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

I relate the historic successes, and present difficulties, of the renormalized quasiparticle theory of metals ("AGD" or Fermi liquid theory). I then describe the best-understood example of a non-Fermi liquid, the normal metallic state of the cuprate superconductors.