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Towards an Understanding of Hole Superconductivity

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High-Tc Copper Oxide Superconductors and Related Novel Materials

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From the very beginning K. Alex Müller emphasized that the materials he and George Bednorz discovered in 1986 were hole superconductors. Here I would like to share with Alex and others what I believe to be the key reason for why high T c cuprates as well as all other superconductors are hole superconductors, which I only came to understand a few months ago.

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Hirsch, J.E. (2017). Towards an Understanding of Hole Superconductivity. In: Bussmann-Holder, A., Keller, H., Bianconi, A. (eds) High-Tc Copper Oxide Superconductors and Related Novel Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 255. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52675-1_9

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