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Researchers identify new type of superconductor
Until now, the history of superconducting materials has been a tale of two types: s-wave and d-wave.
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Sep 21, 2020
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The Hall effect links superconductivity and quantum criticality in a strange metal
Over the past few decades, researchers have identified a number of superconducting materials with atypical properties, known as unconventional superconductors. Many of these superconductors share the same anomalous charge ...
Superconductors are super resilient to magnetic fields
A researcher at the University of Tsukuba has offered a new explanation for how superconductors exposed to a magnetic field can recover, without loss of energy, to their previous state after the field is removed. This work ...
Superconductivity
Sep 07, 2020
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Electric current is manipulated by light in an organic superconductor
A polarized petahertz current is driven by an ultrashort laser in an organic superconductor. This is in contrast to the common sense belief which is justified by Ohm's law, i.e., a net current cannot be induced by an oscillating ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 04, 2020
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An unusual superconductor
Professor Wang Jian at Peking University and collaborators investigated the superconducting properties of two-dimensional crystalline superconducting PdTe2 films grown by molecular beam epitaxy. They observed the experimental ...
Superconductivity
Sep 03, 2020
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New evidence for quantum fluctuations near a quantum critical point in a superconductor
Among all the curious states of matter that can coexist in a quantum material, jostling for preeminence as temperature, electron density and other factors change, some scientists think a particularly weird juxtaposition exists ...
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Aug 31, 2020
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On the track of unconventional superconductivity, researchers are charting unknown territory
An international team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, and colleagues from the USA and Switzerland have successfully combined various ...
General Physics
Aug 27, 2020
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Topological superconducting phase protected by 1-D local magnetic symmetries
Topological superconductors (TSCs) are new kind of topological quantum states with fully superconducting gapped band structure in the bulk, but they support gapless excitations called Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at the boundaries. ...
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Aug 27, 2020
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Investigation of five-layered cuprate reveals Fermi pockets
A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in Japan and one in the U.K has observed Fermi pockets during experiments with a five-layered cuprate, confirming theories. In their paper published in the journal ...
Research team exactly solves experimental puzzle in high temperature superconductivity
Forty-five years after superconductivity was first discovered in metals, the physics giving rise to it was finally explained in 1957 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) ...
Superconductivity
Jul 29, 2020
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Steps toward room-temperature superconductivity
The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials scientists.
Superconductivity
Jul 29, 2020
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Near-field light research advances particle manipulation, high resolution microscopy, and more
There are many types of light—some visible and some invisible to the human eye. For example, our eyes and brain don't have the tools to process ultraviolet light when it hits our eyes, making it invisible. But there is ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 23, 2020
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Contest between superconductivity and insulating states in 'magic angle' graphene
If you stack two layers of graphene one on top of the other, and rotate them at an angle of 1.1º (no more and no less) from each other—the so-called 'magic-angle,' experiments have proven that the material can behave like ...
Superconductivity
Jul 07, 2020
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A 'breath of nothing' provides a new perspective on superconductivity
Zero electrical resistance at room temperature? A material with this property, i.e. a room temperature superconductor, could revolutionize power distribution. But so far, the origin of superconductivity at high temperature ...
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Jul 06, 2020
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Toward super-fast motion of vortices in superconductors
An international team of scientists from Austria, Germany, and Ukraine has found a new superconducting system in which magnetic flux quanta can move at velocities of 10 to 15 km/s. This opens access to investigations of the ...
Superconductivity
Jul 03, 2020
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High-Luminosity LHC: Electricity transmission reaches even higher intensities
Intensity is rising at CERN. In the superconducting equipment testing hall, an innovative transmission line has set a new record for the transport of electricity. The link, which is 60 meters long, has transported a total ...
Superconductivity
Jun 25, 2020
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'Ironing' out the differences: Understanding superconductivity in ultrathin FeSe
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) elucidate the underlying cause behind the different critical transition temperatures reported for ultrathin iron selenide (FeSe) superconductors. Their results clarify ...
Superconductivity
Jun 24, 2020
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Simultaneous nodal superconductivity and broken time-reversal symmetry in CaPtAs
In the vast majority of superconducting materials, Cooper pairs have what is known as even parity, which essentially means that their wave function does not change when electrons swap spatial coordinates. Conversely, some ...
Cascade sets the stage for superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene
Place a single sheet of carbon atop another at a slight angle and remarkable properties emerge, including the highly prized resistance-free flow of current known as superconductivity.
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Jun 11, 2020
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Physicists hunt for room-temperature superconductors that could revolutionize the world's energy system
Waste heat is all around you. On a small scale, if your phone or laptop feels warm, that's because some of the energy powering the device is being transformed into unwanted heat.
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Jun 03, 2020
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