Superconductivity as a research area investigates materials and mechanisms that exhibit exactly zero electrical resistance and expel magnetic flux (Meissner effect) below a critical temperature, field, and current density. It encompasses theoretical frameworks such as BCS theory and unconventional pairing theories, experimental synthesis and characterization of low‑ and high‑temperature superconductors (including cuprates, iron-based, and hydride systems), and the study of vortex matter, quantum phase transitions, and superconducting fluctuations. The field also explores engineered superconducting heterostructures, Josephson junctions, and quantum devices, with strong connections to condensed matter theory, materials science, and quantum information science.
Superconductivity and quantum computing are two fields that have seeped from theoretical circles into popular consciousness. The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for work in superconducting quantum circuits that could ...
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In the right combinations and conditions, two-dimensional materials can host intriguing and potentially valuable quantum phases, like superconductivity and unique forms of magnetism. Why they occur, and how they can be controlled, ...
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Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, steered very thin conductors from superconductivity to insulation—creating an "impossible," strange state between the two mutually exclusive states.
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Researchers from EeroQ, the quantum computing company pioneering electron-on-helium technology, have published a paper, titled "Sensing and Control of Single Trapped Electrons Above 1 Kelvin," in Physical Review X that details ...
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Superconductors (materials that conduct electricity without resistance) have fascinated physicists for more than a century. While conventional superconductors are well understood, a new class of materials known as topological ...
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Researchers have for the first time measured the true properties of individual MXene flakes—an exciting new nanomaterial with potential for better batteries, flexible electronics, and clean energy devices.
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Silicides—alloys of silicon and metals long used in microelectronics—are now being explored again for quantum hardware. But their use faces a critical challenge: achieving phase purity, since some silicide phases are ...
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Superconductivity is a phenomenon where certain materials can conduct electricity with zero resistance. Obviously, this has enormous technological advantages, which makes superconductivity one of the most intensely researched ...
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RIKEN physicists have found a way to speed up the readout of qubits in superconducting quantum computers, which should help to make them faster and more reliable.
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The operation of quantum computers, systems that process information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, relies on the implementation of quantum logic gates. These are essentially operations that manipulate qubits, units ...
