Physics in Canada / La Physique au Canada - 2011 (67.2)
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Cuprate high temperature superconductivity: Relieving a quantum traffic jam

Author(s)
Arun Paramekanti
Institution
University of Toronto, Indian Institute of Science, and Member, CIFAR
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High temperature superconductivity in the cuprate materials arises from doping an   interaction induced electronic ‘Mott insulator’. We discuss the extent to which such a strongly correlated superconductor is understood, and close with a set of important, and as yet unresolved, puzzles.

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