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One-way express ticket to quantum criticality

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Dislocations engineered through plastic deformation are shown to enhance quantum fluctuations and superconductivity in SrTiO3.

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Fig. 1: Schematic and experimental signatures of dislocation-enhanced fluctuations.

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  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA

    Yao Wang

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