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There are a number of transition metal oxide superconductors listed with their transition temperatures in Table 3.1. However there exist only a single family of transition metal oxide superconductors with high transition temperatures and all of these have as a common element the existence of Cu-O planes. These materials are commonly called “the cuprates” and will be the focus of this chapter. While, no doubt, the other oxides represent interesting case studies in superconductivity they do not have either the same technological promise nor represent the intellectual challenge that do the cuprates. The key experimental facts and a comparison, principally with the results of exact diagonalization calculations, have been described in Chap. 2. Unfortunately, despite a deluge of articles, there is no real consensus on the form of an appropriate theory. The somewhat delicate task here is therefore to explain the elements that might make up a future widely accepted theory of cuprate superconductivity.
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Barnes, S.E. (2004). Theory of Superconductivity. In: Physics of Transition Metal Oxides. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 144. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09298-9_3
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