“…It is noteworthy that two kinds of asymmetric behavior coexist in various cuprates. In addition to the dip-hump structure, which is the subject of the current research, and a frequently observed difference between the heights of the coherent superconducting peaks near the gapedges [18,24,51,61,75,76], the overall G(V ) dependence has an asymmetric contribution at voltages far beyond the gap region [18,24,25,46,61,[75][76][77][78][79][80]. This contribution either survives at high T for BSCCO [18,46] or flattens out for La 2−x Sr x CuO 4 [25].…”