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The great quantum conundrum

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Twenty-five years on from its discovery, high-temperature superconductivity remains without a satisfactory explanation. The latest studies on the electronic phase diagram of copper oxide compounds reveal why this is so. See Letter p.73

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Figure 1: Generic electronic phase diagram of the copper oxide superconductors.

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  1. Paul Michael Grant is at W2AGZ Technologies and is an emeritus research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California 95120, USA.,

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Grant, P. The great quantum conundrum. Nature 476, 37–39 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/476037a

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