News tagged with unconventional superconductivity

Physicist awarded prestigious John Bardeen Prize

James A. Sauls, professor of physics and astronomy in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, has been awarded the 2012 John Bardeen Prize for his contributions to the theory of unconventional ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists prove unconventional superconductivity in new iron arsenide compounds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in a new family of iron arsenide superconductors cannot ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 3




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Scientists take a giant step forward in understanding plutonium

Plutonium is the most complex element in the periodic table, yet it is also one of the most poorly understood ones. But now a well-known scientific technique, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Rice's 'quantum critical' theory gets experimental boost

New evidence this week supports a theory developed five years ago at Rice University to explain the electrical properties of several classes of materials -- including unconventional superconductors -- that ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Tunnel view of how electrons play

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrons behave like football teams: the match becomes interesting when the teamwork is as good as that conjured up by the players of FC Barcelona. Electrons which interact strongly with ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Black holes: a model for superconductors?

Black holes are some of the heaviest objects in the universe. Electrons are some of the lightest. Now physicists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have shown how charged black holes can be ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 31 | with audio podcast

Researchers find magnetic link to high-temperature superconductivity

Researchers from the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, a joint SLAC-Stanford institute, have seen strong indications of a relationship between the superconductive and magnetic properties ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Physicists observe exotic state in an unconventional superconductor

A new fractional vortex state observed in an unconventional superconductor may offer the first glimpse of an exotic state of matter predicted theoretically for more than 30 years. In a paper published in the ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Science's breakthrough of the year: The first quantum machine

Until this year, all human-made objects have moved according to the laws of classical mechanics. Back in March, however, a group of researchers designed a gadget that moves in ways that can only be descri ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (36) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Magnetism relieves electrons of their resistance

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physics is sometimes just like a criminal investigation. Researchers gather one piece of evidence after another in order to solve a mystery - for example, the question as to how unconventional ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Certain doped-oxide ceramics resist Ohm's Law

For months, Anthony West could hardly believe what he and his colleagues were seeing in the lab -- or the only explanation for the unexpected phenomena that seemed to make sense.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Quantum Twist: Electrons Mimic Presence of Magnetic Field

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists led by a Princeton University group recently discovered that on the surface of certain materials collective arrangements of electrons move in ways that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 1


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