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Nature 440, 1118-1119 (27 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/4401118a; Published online 26 April 2006

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Superconductivity: Quantum stripe search

Jan Zaanen1

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Do quantum stripes exist or not? Further indirect evidence for this controversial behaviour of electrons in high-temperature superconductors comes from measurements of atomic-lattice vibrations.

Since 1995, the 'stripe wars' have been raging in the demesne of high-temperature superconductivity. This fierce conflict, fought with the highest-calibre weapons of experimental physics, has its antecedent in a hotly contested claim about the way electrons behave in the copper oxide materials notoriously used as high-temperature superconductors.

  1. Jan Zaanen is at the Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden, PO Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
    jan@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl

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