New mechanism and exact theory of superconductivity from strong repulsive interaction

Valentin Crépel1, Liang Fu1

  • 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. vcrepel@mit.edu liangfu@mit.edu.

Science Advances
|July 24, 2021
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