A new study suggests that the highest transition temperatures in cuprate superconductors occur when the materials are on the edge of instability to another, non-superconducting, ordered 'stripe' phase.
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Kivelson, S. Superconductivity on the verge of catastrophe. Nature Mater 5, 343–344 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1638
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