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Nature Physics 4, 16 - 17 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys823

Subject Category: Condensed-matter physics

Superconductivity: Beyond convention

Didier Poilblanc1

  1. Didier Poilblanc is in the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, CNRS and Université Paul Sabatier, F-31062 Toulouse, France.
    e-mail: didier.poilblanc@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr


For high-temperature superconductors, results from more refined experiments on better-quality samples are issuing fresh challenges to theorists. It could be that a new state of matter is at play, with unconventional excitations.

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