The legacy of 40 years of cuprate superconductivity
Ross H. McKenzie (noreply@blogger.com)
In February 1986, Bednorz and Müller made a stunning discovery: superconductivity at a temperature of 35 K in a doped copper oxide (cuprate). Arguably, this discovery changed condensed matter physics. In April 1986, they submitted their results to Z. Phys. B. Only nineteen months later, they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, the shortest time ever between a discovery and the award. A nice and short review of the history is here.
One measure of my estimate of the influence of this...