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The Fermi Liquid Breakdown: High-\(T_c\) Superconductivity

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The Fermi liquid theory that we have outlined in the previous Section has been tremendously successful in explaining almost all metallic states in nature. However, fortunately nature hides always great surprises.

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    See [2] for a theoretical review on BCS.

  2. 2.

    This is done in light of the holographic analysis of the normal phase transport properties, performed in Part 3.

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Amoretti, A. (2017). The Fermi Liquid Breakdown: High-\(T_c\) Superconductivity. In: Condensed Matter Applications of AdS/CFT. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61875-3_3

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