A variety of low-temperature, normal-state properties of optimally and overdoped cuprate superconductors, including the DC and optical transport responses, are sufficiently anomalous that they might seem to be inconsistent with any quasiparticle description. However, we show by explicit construction that the most salient phenomena can be accounted for in a system with localized "strange scatterers" embedded into a Fermi liquid with a conventional quasiparticle description. Such scatterers could originate from "two-level systems" associated with an electronic glassy state with short-range charge-order correlations.
Comment: Aspects of the proposed model which we had previously identified as "unnatural" appear to us now to be impossible to realize from any physically plausible microscopic origin. Accordingly, this paper has been withdrawn. We thank Patrick Lee and Chandra Varma for focusing our attention on the seriousness of these issues.