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Superconductivity at standard temperature and pressure is far from the extreme conditions where new fundamental laws of physics are expected to arise (Anderson in Science 177:393, 1972). Yet it is widely believed that the Landau–Ginzburg–Wilson–Fisher paradigm of broken symmetry and renormalization does not give a satisfactory account of the phenomenon (Matthias in Science 144:373, 1964). Almost a decade ago, we used the Bardeen–Cooper—Shrieffer wavefunction to show that superconductors have topological order (Bray-Ali et al. in Phys Rev B 80:180504, 2009). Here, we report progress using topological order to look for standard temperature and pressure superconductivity.
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I am grateful to the organizers of the 2nd International Workshop Towards Room Temperature Superconductivity for the opportunity to present this work.
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Bray-Ali, N. Standard temperature and pressure superconductivity. Quantum Stud.: Math. Found. 5, 137–140 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40509-017-0139-5
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