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General Physics Nov 6, 2006

A New Approach to Superconducting Memory

Despite the potential of superconductor-based electronics to significantly impact the electronics industry – for example, a superconducting computer chip is a thousand times faster than the one within the laptop I'm using ...

Mar 13, 2006

Improved Superconductivity in Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

A group of researchers from several institutions in Japan has observed superconductivity — a phenomenon in which electrons flow with no resistance — in billionth-of-a-meter sized cylindrical carbon molecules known as ...

Superconductivity Aug 23, 2023

The superconducting diode effect in a device based on coupled Josephson junctions

The so-called superconducting (SC) diode effect is an interesting nonreciprocal phenomenon, occurring when a material is SC in one direction and resistive in the other. This effect has been the focus of numerous physics studies, ...

Condensed Matter Aug 3, 2023

Researchers observe ubiquitous superconductive diode effect in thin superconducting films

The so-called superconducting (SC) diode effect has recently attracted significant attention within the physics research community, due to its potential value for developing new technologies. This effect provides a key example ...

Condensed Matter Apr 28, 2023

A model system of topological superconductivity mediated by skyrmionic magnons

Topological superconductors are superconducting materials with unique characteristics, including the appearance of so-called in-gap Majorana states. These bound states can serve as qubits, making topological superconductors ...

General Physics Apr 25, 2023

The dynamics of 'hotspot forming' high-energy quasiparticles in a superconducting nanowire

Energetic quasiparticles possess a collection of quantum characteristics that operate in a particle-like way in superconducting nanostructures, and they can undergo relaxation by involving many cascaded interactions between ...

General Physics Apr 14, 2023

New experimental evidence of the restoration of chiral symmetry at high matter density

The QCD vacuum (i.e., the ground state of vacuum in the quantum chromodynamics regime) is theoretically characterized by the presence of non-zero expectation values of condensates, such as gluons and quark–antiquark pairs. ...

Superconductivity Dec 21, 2022

Study observes spin-orbit-parity coupled superconductivity in thin 2M-WS2

In recent years, many physicists and material scientists have been studying superconductors, materials that can conduct direct current electricity without energy loss when cooled under a particular temperature. These materials ...

Condensed Matter Nov 11, 2022

Study demonstrates tailored Ising superconductivity in intercalated bulk niobium diselenide

When 2D layered materials are made thinner (i.e., at the atomic scale), their properties can dramatically change, sometimes resulting in the emergence of entirely new features and in the loss of others. While new or emerging ...

Superconductivity Aug 2, 2022

Researchers measure a signature of superconducting interference at the atomic scale

Superconductors, materials that can conduct electricity with no resistance at low temperatures, have many interesting and advantageous properties. In recent years, physicists and computer scientists have been investigating ...

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