Phase Separation in Cuprate Superconductors

The contributions to this book are written by leading experts, including Nobel prize winner K.A. Müller. The high-Tc cuprates are materials that become superconducting when chemically or optically doped. The nature of the resulting phase and the mechanism of the superconductivity have, until recently, posed numerous questions. However, many of the key experimental and theoretical problems are now being solved and it is largely these advances that are presented here.