Despite decades of intense theoretical, experimental and computational effort, a microscopic theory of high-temperature superconductivity is not yet established. Eight researchers share their contributions to the search for a better understanding of unconventional superconductivity and their hopes for the future of the field.
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Xingjiang Zhou is a professor and the Director of the National Lab for Superconductivity at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He works on developing high-resolution laser-based angle-resolved photoemission systems and on studying the electronic structure and superconductivity mechanism of unconventional superconductors.
Wei-Sheng Lee is a principal investigator and staff scientist in the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. His research interest is to understand and control the collective behaviours of quantum materials by using and innovating novel X-ray scattering techniques in synchrotron and X-ray free-electron laser facilities.
Masatoshi Imada is a fellow at Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute, a research professor at Waseda University as well as a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. He works on theoretical and computational physics approaches to correlated electron physics, including high-temperature superconductors, Mott transitions and exotic magnetism.
Nandini Trivedi is a professor in the Department of Physics at the Ohio State University. Her research focuses on the role of strong interactions and topology in creating new emergent phases in quantum matter, such as quantum spin liquids, with non-classical quantum entanglement.
Philip Phillips is a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He works extensively on strongly interacting systems, primarily high-temperature superconductivity and strange metals, and applies leading ideas at the interface with high-energy physics, such as gauge−gravity duality and unparticles, to such problems.
Hae-Young Kee is a professor of Physics at the University of Toronto, a Canada Research Chair in Theory of Quantum Materials, and a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in Quantum Materials. She specializes in complex quantum materials, including quantum spin liquids, topological phases, high-temperature superconductors, and frustrated magnets.
Päivi Törmä is a professor at Aalto University, Finland. Her research focuses on many-body quantum theory, in particular, superconductivity and superfluidity, as well as experimental research on Bose−Einstein condensation and lasing phenomena in nanophotonics.
Mikhail Eremets is group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany. He received the James C. McGroddy Prize in 2020, Bridgman Award AIRAPT in 2017 and the Ugo Fano Gold Medal in 2015. His research focuses on metallic hydrogen and high-temperature superconductivity.
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Zhou, X., Lee, WS., Imada, M. et al. High-temperature superconductivity. Nat Rev Phys 3, 462–465 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-021-00324-3
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