False Alarm: The So-Called ‘Angel Particle’ Is Still a Mystery
A 2017 report of the discovery of a particular kind of Majorana fermion — the chiral Majorana fermion, referred to as the “angel particle” —…
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Successful Test for Superconducting 3.6 Megawatt Wind Turbine
A superconducting rotor has been successfully tested on an active wind turbine for the first time. The EcoSwing consortium designed, developed, manufactured a full-size superconducting…
Devices That Make Fuel From Sunlight More Efficiently Possible With Nanoparticle Discovery From Electrode-Fitted Microscope
University of Oregon researchers find that smaller catalytic nanoparticles may be vital for many kinds of devices that convert solar energy into chemical fuels like…
Scientists Pave the Way for Quantum Computing by Coupling Magnetization to Superconductivity
By coupling magnetic behavior to a superconducting circuit, Argonne scientists pave the way for quantum information systems. Quantum computing promises to revolutionize the ways in…
Physicists Produce New Evidence for an Exotic Superconducting State
A newly published study led by Brown University reveals new evidence for an exotic superconducting state that can arise when a superconductor is exposed to…
The Superconducting Pairing Mechanism in Calcium Doped Graphene Unveiled
A newly published study details how a team of researchers unveiled the superconducting pairing mechanism in Calcium-doped graphene using the ARPES method. Whenever a new…
Superconducting Detectors Could Help Find Gravitational Waves and Extrasolar Planets
Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs), which can simultaneously count photons, measure their energy, and record each one’s time of arrival, could eventually replace charge-coupled devices…