Unconventional superconductors—such as the copper oxide material, or cuprate, in the current study—work at significantly higher temperatures, sometimes up to 130 Kelvin. In cuprates ...

The study, titled "Quantum phase transition from superconducting to insulating-like states in a pressurized cuprate superconductor," has been published in Nature Physics.

Copper oxide-based superconductors were discovered in 1986. Known as cuprate or high-T c (for "high critical temperature") superconductors, these materials have a much higher temperature for the ...

Researchers have discovered that electron spin is key to understanding how cuprate superconductors can conduct electricity without loss at high temperature. In the 1980s, the discovery of high ...

Despite being vital to the study of superconductivity in cuprate materials the physical origins of the pseudogap remain a mystery. Over three decades since the discovery of high-temperature ...

The findings show evidence of electronic nematicity as a universal feature in cuprate high-temperature superconductors. Cuprates are copper-oxide ceramics composed of two-dimensional layers or planes ...

In strongly correlated materials such as cuprate high-temperature superconductors, superconductivity can be controlled either by changing the number of electrons or by changing the kinetic energy ...

In 1986, two IBM researchers found a cuprate that superconducted at -396 degrees Fahrenheit, a breakthrough that won them the Nobel Prize in Physics. Soon enough, others in the field pushed ...

This team has devised a ligand exchange strategy to exfoliate bulk cuprate crystals into atomically thin 2D cuprate layers whose basal plane contains periodic arrays of accessible unsaturated Cu ...

Scanning tunneling microscopy was used to analyze a cuprate high-temperature superconductor modified into an insulating state by a team of researchers from Boston College and Brookhaven National ...