A Microscopic Model for Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior
and D-Wave Pairing in Cuprates

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Slide 1:	Title Page	Slide 2:	Background
Slide 3:	Nature of the Magnetic Condensate for Low Doping Concentrations	Slide 4:	Spin-Flux Concept
Slide 5:	Spin-Flux Concept ... cont'd	Slide 6:	How can Spin-Flux be dynamically generated?
Slide 7:	Spin-Flux Model	Slide 8:	The undoped parent compound
Slide 9:	What mediates the transition between spin-flux and non-spin-flux states?	Slide 10:	Effective Continuum Field Theory
Slide 11:	Continuum Model for Undoped Mott Insulator with Spin-Flux	Slide 12:	Spin-Flux is Mediated by Neutral Magnetic Solitons
Slide 13:	The Hedgehog Skyrmion Soliton	Slide 14:	What happens with the AFM if it is doped with holes? The neutral meron vs. the charged meron
Slide 15:	Energetics of Spin-Flux AFM vs. conventional AFM	Slide 16:	Hartree-Fock Approximation
Slide 17:	1D Hubbard chain: Inadequacy of Mean-Field Theory	Slide 18:	Configuration Interaction Method
Slide 19:	1D Hubbard chain: CI method	Slide 20:	Spin-Charge Separation in 1D
Slide 21:	The doped Mott insulator	Slide 22:	Direct Experimental Signatures of Charged Vortex-Antivortex Solitons
Slide 23:	Direct Experimental ... cont'd	Slide 24:	Meron-Antimeron pair vs. Spin-polaron
Slide 25:	Precursor to spin-charge separation in 2D	Slide 26:	Energy of Singly-Charged Mobile Vortex-Antivortex Pair
Slide 27:	Meron-antimeron pair: dynamical properties	Slide 28:	Summary of the model