It sounds like a riddle: What do you get if you take two small diamonds, put a small magnetic crystal between them and squeeze them together very slowly?
Condensed Matter
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An international team led by University of Toronto physicists has developed a simple new technique using Scotch poster tape that has enabled them to induce high-temperature superconductivity in a semiconductor for the first ...
Superconductivity
Sep 11, 2012
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Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) are unveiling a novel theory for high-temperature superconductivity. The team hopes the new finding gives insight into the process, and brings the scientific community closer ...
Superconductivity
Jun 18, 2012
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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 magnetic fields. ...
General Physics
Mar 22, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Princeton-led research team has revealed surprising information about how electron behavior influences the conduction of electricity in a class of high-temperature superconductors. An increased understanding ...
Superconductivity
Jun 29, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the UT Dallas Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute have demonstrated a fundamentally new type of artificial muscle, which can operate at extreme temperatures where no other artificial muscle ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 20, 2009
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Typical superconducting quantum circuits, such as qubits—basic processing units of a quantum computer, must be operated at very low temperatures, of a few 10s of millikelvin, or hundredths of a degree from absolute zero ...
Superconductivity
Jun 16, 2023
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In just about any situation in which electricity is being used, whether it is lighting a bedroom at night, keeping frozen food cold, or powering a car that is taking a commuter to work, some of that electrical energy is lost ...
Superconductivity
Dec 1, 2022
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Today it only takes one and a half hours to make a superconducting particle accelerator at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory colder than outer space.
Superconductivity
Aug 31, 2022
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Researchers have developed a supramolecular adhesive that is recyclable and has outstanding gluing properties across a wide range of temperatures, from liquid nitrogen (−196 degrees Celsius) up to oven-hot temperatures ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 18, 2022
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