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FIZIKA A 8 (1999) 4 , 239-244
 
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
PROPERTIES OF HIGH-Tc CUPRATES: SOME RECENT RESULTS AND OPEN
QUESTIONS
IVANA VOBORNIK AND DAVOR PAVUNA
Department of Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
IPA - EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Dedicated to Professor Boran Leontić on the occasion of his 70th
birthday
Received 9 November 1999; revised manuscript received 22 March 2000
Accepted 3 April 2000
Thirteen years ago, late in 1986, several groups confirmed striking claims of the
famous paper by Bednorz and Müller [Z Phys. B 64 (1986) 189] that announced the
discovery of high-Tc superconductivity in cuprates. Some 60,000 papers later,
we are still struggling to understand the high-Tc oxide superconductivity. Here
we present some of the most relevant recent experiments and discuss some open questions
across rather complex electronic phase diagram; we also note an important role of
un-intentional and intentional disorder in these layered, high-Tc oxides.
PACS numbers: 74.25.-g, 74.72
UDC 538.945
Keywords: superconductivity, high-Tc cuprates
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