title: Magnetic field effect on the pseudogap temperature within precursor superconductivity.
abstract: We determine the magnetic-field dependence of the pseudogap closing temperature T* within a precursor superconductivity scenario. Detailed calculations with an anisotropic lattice model with d-wave superconductivity account for a recently determined experimental relation in BSCCO between the pseudogap closing field and the pseudogap temperature at zero field, as well as for the weak initial dependence of T* at low fields. Our results indicate that the available experimental data are fully compatible with a superconducting origin of the pseudogap in cuprate superconductors.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Sezione INFM Università di Camerino, I-62032 Camerino, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pieri
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Strinati
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moroni