Unconventional Superconductor May Unlock New Ways To Build Quantum Computers
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. Scientists on the hunt…
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Physicists Uncover Secrets of World’s Thinnest Superconductor – Answer 30-Year-Old Questions
First experimental evidence of spin excitations in an atomically thin material helps answer 30-year-old questions, could lead to better medical diagnostics and more. Physicists from…
Researchers Uncover Unique Properties of a Promising New Superconductor for Quantum Computing
Material could be used in future quantum computing applications. An international team of physicists led by the University of Minnesota has discovered that a unique…
Rare Superconductor Discovered – May Be Critical for the Future of Quantum Computing
Research led by Kent and the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has resulted in the discovery of a new rare topological superconductor, LaPt3P. This discovery may be of…
Exotic Superconductors: The Secret That Was Never There
How reproducible are measurements in solid-state physics? New measurements show: An allegedly sensational effect does not exist at all. A single measurement result is not…
Brand New Physics of Superconducting Metals – Busted
Lancaster scientists have demonstrated that other physicists’ recent “discovery” of the field effect in superconductors is nothing but hot electrons after all. A team of…
Nanotechnology Breakthrough: A Material-Keyboard Made of Graphene
Researchers at ETH Zurich have succeeded in turning specially prepared graphene flakes either into insulators or into superconductors by applying an electric voltage. This technique…
Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in a Superconductor
This unusual electronic energy structure could be harnessed for technologies of interest in quantum information science and electronics. Electrons in a solid occupy distinct energy…
Combining Light & Superconductors Could Boost Artificial Intelligence Capabilities
Optoelectronic integration at low temperatures using superconductors may be easier than at room temperatures using semiconductors. As artificial intelligence has attracted broad interest, researchers are…
Scientists Make Advances Towards Quantum Supremacy
A Russian-German research team has created a quantum sensor that grants access to measurement and manipulation of individual two-level defects in qubits. The study by…
Sweden’s Quantum Computer Project Shifts up a Gear and Sets Higher Goals
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is almost doubling the annual budget of the research initiative Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, based at Chalmers University of…
Unusual Material Features Spontaneous Superconducting Currents – Why It Superconducts at All Is Completely Unknown
Superconductivity is a complete loss of electrical resistance. Superconductors are not merely very good metals: it is a fundamentally different electronic state. In normal metals,…
New High-Temperature Superconductor Synthesized by Scientists
An international team led by Artem R. Oganov, a Professor at Skoltech and MISIS, and Dr. Ivan Troyan from the Institute of Crystallography of RAS…
Solar-Powered Lunar Ark Proposed As “Modern Global Insurance Policy”
The ambitious project proposed by a University of Arizona team aims to preserve humankind – and animal-kind, plant-kind and fungi-kind – in the event of…
Harvard Scientists Trilayer Graphene Breakthrough Opens the Door for High Temperature Superconductors
In 2018, the physics world was set ablaze with the discovery that when an ultrathin layer of carbon, called graphene, is stacked and twisted to…
Scientists Create Advanced, More Powerful Superconducting Magnet for Next Generation Light Sources
Magnet Designers Look to the Future of Light Sources With New Prototype After more than 15 years of work, scientists at three DOE national laboratories…
Quantum Entanglement of Electrons Using Heat
Quantum entanglement is key for next-generation computing and communications technology, Aalto researchers can now produce it using temperature differences. A joint group of scientists from…
Prototype Microprocessor Developed Using Superconductors – 80 Times More Energy Efficient
Researchers from Yokohama National University in Japan have developed a prototype microprocessor using superconductor devices that are about 80 times more energy efficient than the…
