Physical Properties of High‐ Superconductors
DOI: 10.1063/1.881260
Four years of intensive research following J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller’s discovery of high‐temperature superconductors has produced about 18 000 publications. An overview of all physical properties is thus beyond the scope of this article, so I will focus on a few topics that are widely perceived to hold the key to understanding these fascinating compounds.
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Bertram Batlogg. AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.