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High-temperature superconductivity survives

In heavily hole-doped cuprates, superconductivity does not die by simply dissolving into a uniform metal due to the lack of pairing, but rather survives by shattering into nanoscale superconducting puddles.

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Fig. 1: The superconducting phase diagrams of high-Tc cuprates.

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He, Y. High-temperature superconductivity survives. Nat. Mater. 22, 671–672 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01552-x

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