# Superconductivity and non-Fermi liquid behavior near a nematic quantum critical point

@article{Lederer2016SuperconductivityAN,
title={Superconductivity and non-Fermi liquid behavior near a nematic quantum critical point},
author={Samuel Lederer and Yoni Schattner and Erez Berg and Steven A. Kivelson},
journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
year={2016},
volume={114},
pages={4905 - 4910}
}
• Published 5 December 2016
• Physics
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Significance It has been conjectured that many properties of highly correlated materials, including high-temperature superconductivity, may arise from proximity to a metallic quantum critical point. However, the nature of quantum critical phenomena in metals is incompletely understood. Using numerically exact quantum Monte Carlo methods, we simulated a model that can be tuned through a metallic quantum critical point and observed behaviors that are strikingly reminiscent of experiments. Among…
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