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The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in the copper oxides in 1986 triggered a huge amount of innovative scientific inquiry. In the almost three decades since, much has been learned about the novel forms of quantum matter that are exhibited in these strongly correlated electron systems. A qualitative understanding of the nature of the superconducting state itself has been achieved. However, unresolved issues include the astonishing complexity of the phase diagram, the unprecedented prominence of various forms of collective fluctuations, and the simplicity and insensitivity to material details of the ‘normal’ state at elevated temperatures.
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We thank A. Yazdani for many discussions. S.A.K. was supported by the US DOE, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering, under Award No. DE-AC02-76SF00515 at Stanford University. M.N. was supported by the Center for Emergent Superconductivity, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US DOE, Basic Energy Sciences, under Award No. DE-AC0298CH1088. J.Z. acknowledges financial support by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research/Ministry of Science and Education (NWO/OCW), and a grant from the Templeton foundation: the opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton foundation.
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Keimer, B., Kivelson, S., Norman, M. et al. From quantum matter to high-temperature superconductivity in copper oxides. Nature 518, 179–186 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14165
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