Questions tagged [cuprates]

Questions about cuprates. They are especially involved in high-temperature superconductivity.

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How does a beginner condensed matter theorist working on real materials, get up to speed?

I asked this on Physics.SE and got recommended here. More precisely, as a condensed matter theory PhD student, I am often overwhelmed by the wide variety of chemical formulas that experimentalists ...
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Can ab initio crystal structure methods predict the structure of cuprates from their stoichiometry and quantify the brittleness of those materials?

Current ab initio methods may not be able to predict the electronic transport properties of cuprate superconductors but can they be used to predict their crystal structure? Furthermore those materials ...
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