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The last 15 years have witnessed important progresses in our understanding of the mechanism of superconductivity in the high-$T_{c}$ cuprates. There is now strong evidence that the strange metal behavior is induced by the quantum critical…
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High critical temperature cuprate superconducting materials are composed of copper oxide layers and interlayer charge reservoirs. When not doped, these cuprates are antiferromagnetic insulators. We propose to design new materials by…
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A model is proposed such that quasi-particles (electrons or holes) residing in the CuO2 planes of cuprates may interact leading to metallic or superconducting behaviors. The metallic phase is obtained when the quasi-particles are treated as…