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The claims made for the Resonating Valence Bond ideas for the Cuprates in a recent paper by Anderson et al. on the basis of a variational calculation are discussed.
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Varma, C. (2005). Notes on Rvb-Vanilla by Anderson et al.. In: Ashkenazi, J., et al. New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 183. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3085-1_18
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