Physicists Successfully Modify a Semiconductor to Create a Superconductor
Three physicists in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, together with their colleagues from the Southern University of Science…
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Mysterious Yet Highly Effective in Superconducting at High Temperatures: How Electrons Supertransport Current in “Bad Metals”
‘Bad’ and mysterious yet highly effective in superconducting at high temperatures; even if, according to expectations, these materials should not behave like this; new research…
“Holy Grail” Sought for More Than a Century: Researchers Synthesize Room Temperature Superconducting Material
Compressing simple molecular solids with hydrogen at extremely high pressures, University of Rochester engineers and physicists have, for the first time, created material that is…
New Type of Superconductor Identified by Scientists
Until now, the history of superconducting materials has been a tale of two types: s-wave and d-wave. Now, Cornell researchers — led by Brad Ramshaw,…
What Happens Between the Sheets? Extremely-Promising Superconductor Surprises Everyone
‘Floating’ Graphene on a Bed of Calcium Atoms Adding calcium to graphene creates an extremely-promising superconductor, but where does the calcium go? Adding calcium to…
Quantum Materials Could Mimic Colossal Magnetic Fields Using Graphene That Buckles
Cooled graphene mimics effect of enormous magnetic fields that would benefit electronics. Graphene, an extremely thin two-dimensional layer of the graphite used in pencils, buckles…
Superconducting Magnets of the Future in the Making at CERN
Over the past thirty years, the exploration of the infinitely small has gone hand-in-hand with advances in superconducting magnets. The increasingly powerful hadron colliders, from…
Using Light Waves to Accelerate Supercurrents to Access Forbidden Light and the Quantum World
Scientists are using light waves to accelerate supercurrents and access the unique properties of the quantum world, including forbidden light emissions that one day could…
Breakthrough in Understanding the Physics of High-Temperature Superconductivity
A new measuring method helps understand the physics of high-temperature superconductivity From sustainable energy to quantum computers: high-temperature superconductors have the potential to revolutionize today’s…
Tiny Twists Mapped in “Magic-Angle” Graphene Could Enable Quantum Computing Devices
Results could help designers engineer high-temperature superconductors and quantum computing devices. Made of a single layer of carbon atoms linked in a hexagonal honeycomb pattern,…
After Decades of Trying, Physicists Observe Kondo Cloud Quantum Phenomenon for the First Time
Physicists have been trying to observe the quantum phenomenon Kondo cloud for many decades. An international research team comprising a scientist from City University of…
“Impossible” Superconducting Compound Synthesized by Scientists
Scientists have created new superconducting compounds of hydrogen and praseodymium, a rare-earth metal, one substance being quite a surprise from the perspective of classical chemistry….
A Sensor So Good, It’s “Spooky” – Using Quantum Entanglement to Detect Magnetic Excitation
A sensor using quantum entanglement can determine if a single magnetic excitation is present in a millimeter-sized sphere. This moves us closer to the limit…
Record Superconductor Sustained by Atomic Quantum Fluctuations
This result suggests that superconductivity approaching room temperature may be possible in hydrogen-rich compounds at much lower pressures than previously expected with classical calculations. The…
New Quantum Detector Measures the Tiniest Energies in Superconducting Circuits
A new device measures the tiniest energies in superconducting circuits, an essential step for quantum technology. Quantum physics is moving out of the laboratory and…
Direct Evidence of Entanglement’s Role in Quantum Criticality Found in ‘Strange Metal’
Study Finds Billions of Quantum Entangled Electrons in ‘Strange Metal’ In a new study, U.S. and Austrian physicists have observed quantum entanglement among “billions of…
Superconductor or Not? Exploring the Identity Crisis of This Weird Quantum Material
Northeastern researchers have used a powerful computer model to probe a puzzling class of copper-based materials that can be turned into superconductors. Their findings offer…
High-Temperature Superconductor Study Reveals “Strange Metal” May Be “Densely Entangled Matter”
It reveals an abrupt transition in cuprates where particles give up their individuality; the results flip a popular theory on its head. Every character has…
