New Mathematical Relationship for Superconductors
Engineers from MIT have discovered a new mathematical relationship between material thickness, temperature, and electrical resistance that appears to hold in all superconductors. The result…
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Physicists Identify the Origin of Superconductivity in High-Temperature Superconductors
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have made a breakthrough in identifying the origin of superconductivity in high-temperature superconductors. They discovered that ripples of electrons,…
New Magnetic Phase in Iron-Based Superconductors Discovered
Argonne scientists have discovered a new magnetic phase in iron-based superconductors, shedding light on a debate over the interactions between atoms and electrons that are…
SLAC Scientists View Ultrafast Snapshots of Light-Driven Superconductivity
Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linac Coherent Light Source used carefully timed pairs of laser pulses to capture ultrafast snapshots of light-driven superconductivity. A…
Direct Experimental Evidence of the Subtle Changes in Electron Orbitals
Using advanced electron diffraction techniques, researchers obtained direct experimental evidence of the subtle changes in electron orbitals by comparing an unaltered, non-superconducting material with its…
Researchers Reveal New Secrets about Superconductivity and Magnetism
Researchers detail new secrets about how superconductivity and magnetism can be related, revealing more about the quantum world of electrons. Superconducting materials exhibit unexpected behaviors…
A Growing Understanding of the Conditions Required for Superconductivity
Two newly published studies improve scientists’ understanding of the conditions required for superconductivity and how it can be achieved at realistic temperatures. Even physics can…
Researchers Reveal Hidden Magnetic Waves in High-Temperature Superconductors
New research from the Brookhaven National Laboratory has revealed that magnetic excitations, quantum waves believed by many to regulate high-temperature superconductors, exist in both non-superconducting…
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Might Have Been Attained
Material scientists in Germany have claimed that they have discovered a material that can act as a superconductor at room temperature. If this is accurate,…
New Insights Into How Superconducting Materials Interact With Magnetic Ones
An international team of physicists has gained new insights into how superconducting materials interact with magnetic ones, discovering charge density waves in ceramic yttrium and…
New Insight on Pseudogap May Aid in Future Superconductor Technology
A new study by a team of Harvard physicists found that a lack of oxygen appears to be strongly related to the pseudogap phase in…
Iron-Based HTS Shows Unexpected Electronic Asymmetry
A new study from a team of physicists offers new clues to scientists studying the mystery of high-temperature superconductivity, finding that electronic properties of a…
Splitting of an Electron into the Spinon and Orbiton
While using X-rays from the Swiss Light Source (SLS) fired at Sr2CuO3, physicists at the Paul Scherrer Institute observed an electron splitting into two new…
Iron-Based Crystal Superconductor Breaks High-Temperature Record
Superconductivity, a phenomenon that works only at temperatures close to absolute zero, has been proven to work at higher temperatures, as much as 70 kelvin….
