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Ferroelectricity woos pairing

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Ferroelectricity and superconductivity do not have much in common. Now, a superconducting and a ferroelectric-like state have been found to coexist in a doped perovskite oxide.

Can ferroelectricity and superconductivity occur simultaneously? Can ferroelectricity boost the superconducting critical temperature? Writing in Nature Physics, Carl Rischau and colleagues1 report experimental results suggesting that the coexistence of a ferroelectric-like state and superconductivity may be possible.

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Figure 1: Energy versus polarization as a function of a tuning parameter.

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  1. Marc Gabay is at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud 11, Université Paris Saclay, CNRS UMR 8502, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France,

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  2. Jean-Marc Triscone is in the Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland,

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Gabay, M., Triscone, JM. Ferroelectricity woos pairing. Nature Phys 13, 624–625 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4124

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