An enduring theme in strongly correlated materials is the optimization of superconductivity in the vicinity of a quantum critical point. Quantum fluctuations are maximized at a quantum critical point, where an associated phase transition is suppressed to zero temperature. The occurrence of a quantum critical point in copper-oxide superconductors, however, has remained shrouded in uncertainty.
Our measurements over a wide range of dopings under very high magnetic fields in YbBa2Cu3O6+x uncovered two quantum critical points as a function of doping, each of which is in the vicinity of a maximum in superconducting temperature.
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