Recent advances in spectroscopy give access to the decay time of excitations in disordered insulating silicon close to the metal–insulator transition, revealing similarities to high-temperature cuprate superconductors.
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Miranda, E. When silicon is like a cuprate. Nat. Phys. 17, 554–555 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-01162-3
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