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Nature Materials 4, 655 - 656 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nmat1467

Superconductivity: Technology meets quantum criticality

Jan Zaanen1

  1. Jan Zaanen is at the Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics of Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. e-mail: jan@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl


Superconductivity and antiferromagnetism are in fierce competition in high-temperature superconductors. However, this competition has the unexpected benefit that the antiferromagnetism improves the capacity of the superconductor to resist magnetic fields.

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