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Numerous experiments on cuprate materials suggest that a zero-temperature phase transition is hidden beneath the superconducting dome. Is it the key to understanding high-temperature superconductivity, and can it explain the anomalous normal state properties?

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Figure 1: Quantum criticality in heavy-fermion systems.
Figure 2: Doping–temperature phase diagram of the hole-doped cuprate superconductors.

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  1. D. M. Broun is in the Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada dbroun@sfu.ca,

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Broun, D. What lies beneath the dome?. Nature Phys 4, 170–172 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys909

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