News tagged with superconductor science and technology

Scientists looking to burst the superconductivity bubble

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bubbles are blocking the current path of one of the most promising high temperature superconducting materials, new research suggests.

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

0.2 second test for explosive liquids

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since a failed terrorist attack in 2006, plane passengers have not been able to carry bottles of liquid through security at airports, leaving some parched at the airport and others having ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0




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X-ray laser uncovers secrets of complex oxide material

(Phys.org) -- An international team of researchers has used SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) to discover never-before-seen behavior by electrons in complex materials with extraordinary properties.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Atomic-scale visualization of electron pairing in iron superconductors

(Phys.org) -- By measuring how strongly electrons are bound together to form Cooper pairs in an iron-based superconductor, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists benchmark quantum simulator with hundreds of qubits

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of quantum bits (qubits) -- 10 times more than previous devices. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Improving on the amazing: Scientists seek new conductors for metamaterials

(Phys.org) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have designed a method to evaluate different conductors for use in metamaterial structures, which are engineered to exhibit ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Probing hydrogen under extreme conditions

(Phys.org) -- How hydrogen--the most abundant element in the cosmos--responds to extremes of pressure and temperature is one of the major challenges in modern physical science. Moreover, knowledge gleaned ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers find possible evidence of Majorana fermions

(Phys.org) -- Researchers working out of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have constructed a device that appears to offer some evidence of the existence of Majorana fermions; the elusive particles ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Magnetic cloak: Physicists create device invisible to magnetic fields

Autonomous University of Barcelona researchers, in collaboration with an experimental group from the Academy of Sciences of Slovakia, have created a cylinder which hides contents and makes them invisible to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

'Quantum criticality': Ultracold experiments heat up quantum research

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Chicago physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that atoms chilled to temperatures near absolute zero may behave like seemingly unrelated natural systems ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Third research team close to creating Majorana fermion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently there has been a virtual explosion of research efforts aimed at creating the elusive Majorana fermion with different groups claiming to be near to creating them. First there was news that a team ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Scientists score one more victory over uncertainty in quantum physics measurements

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people attempt to reduce the little uncertainties of life by carrying umbrellas on cloudy days, purchasing automobile insurance or hiring inspectors to evaluate homes they might consider ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 18 | with audio podcast


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