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Superconductivity Mar 22, 2024

Discovery of a hidden quantum critical point in two-dimensional superconductors

Weak fluctuations in superconductivity, a precursor phenomenon to superconductivity, have been successfully detected by a research group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). This breakthrough was achieved by ...

Condensed Matter Mar 14, 2024

Researchers discover new yttrium-hydrogen compounds with implications for high-pressure superconductivity

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have made a significant scientific breakthrough by identifying new yttrium-hydrogen compounds, a discovery that has serious implications for research on high-pressure superconductivity. ...

Superconductivity Mar 13, 2024

Scientists reveal the first unconventional superconductor that can be found in mineral form in nature

Scientists from Ames National Laboratory have identified the first unconventional superconductor with a chemical composition also found in nature. Miassite is one of only four minerals found in nature that act as a superconductor ...

General Physics Mar 11, 2024

Preventing magnet meltdowns before they can start

The particle accelerators that enable high-energy physics and serve many fields of science, such as materials, medical, and fusion research, are driven by superconducting magnets that are, to put it simply, quite finicky.

Superconductivity Mar 11, 2024

Quantum-mechanical 'molecules' spotted in superconducting devices

Electronic states that resemble molecules and are promising for use in future quantum computers have been created in superconducting circuits by physicists at RIKEN.

Analytical Chemistry Mar 8, 2024

A physics-based predictive tool to speed up battery and superconductor research

From lithium-ion batteries to next-generation superconductors, the functionality of many modern, advanced technologies depends on the physical property known as intercalation. Unfortunately, it's difficult to identify in ...

General Physics Mar 6, 2024

Beam balance designs could elucidate the origins of dark energy

One of the greatest problems in modern physics is to reconcile the enormous difference between the energy carried by random fluctuations in the vacuum of space, and the dark energy driving the universe's expansion.

Condensed Matter Mar 6, 2024

Weird electron behavior gets even weirder: Charge fractionalization observed spectroscopically

A research team led by the Paul Scherrer Institute has spectroscopically observed the fractionalization of electronic charge in an iron-based metallic ferromagnet. Experimental observation of the phenomenon is not only of ...

Superconductivity Mar 4, 2024

Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion

In the predawn hours of Sept. 5, 2021, engineers achieved a major milestone in the labs of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), when a new type of magnet, made from high-temperature superconducting material, achieved ...

Condensed Matter Mar 1, 2024

Evidence of phonon chirality from impurity scattering in the antiferromagnetic insulator strontium iridium oxide

The thermal hall effect (THE) is a physical phenomenon characterized by tiny transverse temperature differences occurring in a material when a thermal current passes through it and a perpendicular magnetic field is applied ...

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