(University of Texas at Austin) A research team including Jianshi Zhou from UT Austin has confirmed the existence of a phase transition in copper-oxide-based (or cuprate) superconductors. The team believes that it could be during this ‘quantum critical point,’ when superconductivity actually occurs.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uota-nsr022519.php