In some two-dimensional materials, there's a puzzling intermediate metallic phase between superconducting and insulating states. Experiments on ultraclean crystalline samples suggest this metallic phase could be bosonic.
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Phillips, P. Not just a phase. Nature Phys 12, 206–207 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3682
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