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Superfluid-superconductor relationship is detailed

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 02, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 3

Scientists have studied superconductors and superfluids for decades. Now, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have drawn the first detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor. ...


An iron-based superconductor under pressure

Putting the Pressure on Iron-Based Superconductors

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Traditionally, magnetism and superconductivity don't mix. For more than 20 years, the only known superconductors that worked at so-called "high" temperatures (above 30 K, or about -406 degrees ...


Secrets behind high temperature superconductors revealed

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 22, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (23) | comments 30

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) have found evidence that magnetism is involved in the mechanism behind high temperature superconductivity.


The pseudogap persists as material superconducts

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 2

For nearly a century, scientists have been trying to unravel the many mysteries of superconductivity, where materials conduct electricity with zero resistance.


Two-Dimensional Fluctuating Superconductivity

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 13, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Scientists at Brookhaven Lab have discovered a state of two-dimensional (2D) fluctuating superconductivity in a high-temperature superconductor with a particular arrangement of electrical charges known as "stripes."


Theorists make discovery in odd triplet pairing

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 0

In a paper which will shortly appear in Physical Review Letters, School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Oriol Valls along with lead author Klaus Halterman (China Lake, Naval Warfare Center) and co-author Paul Barsic (Unive ...


Lithium and Beryllium No Longer 'Lack Chemistry'

Two aloof elements would bind under pressure, perhaps forming a superconductor, researchers say

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 24, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (68) | comments 0

It is the woeful truth: lithium (Li) and beryllium (Be) -- elements three and four, respectively, on the periodic table -- do not like each other.


Thinnest superconducting metal created

Thinnest superconducting metal created

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

A superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick, the thinnest superconducting metal layer ever created, has been developed by physicists at The University of Texas at Austin.


Looking for 'Stripes' in High-Tc superconductors

Looking for 'Stripes' in High-Tc superconductors

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

In LBCO, as in all materials, negatively charged electrons repel one another. But by trying to stay as far apart as possible, each individual electron is confined to a limited space, which costs energy. To ...


Nano World: Superconducting wires

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created Apr 01, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (23) | comments 0

Nanotechnology could help enable the next generation of superconducting wires for everything from new city power grids to levitating trains, experts told UPI's Nano World.


Tonica Vall

One Mystery of High-Tc Superconductivity Resolved

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 16, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (39) | comments 1

Research published online in the journal Science this week by Tonica Valla, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, appears to resolve one mystery in the 20-year study ...


John R. Clem

Ames lab physicist develops 'electrifying' theory on superconducting fault-current limiters

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 16, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- John R. Clem, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, has developed a theory that will help build future superconducting alternating-current fault-current limiters ...


New superconductors present new mysteries, possibilities

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 04, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (43) | comments 9

Johns Hopkins University researchers and colleagues in China have unlocked some of the secrets of newly discovered iron-based high-temperature superconductors, research that could result in the design of better superconductors ...


Point-contact spectroscopy deepens mystery of heavy-fermion superconductors

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created Mar 24, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Theoretical understanding of heavy-fermion superconductors has just slipped a notch or two, says a team of experimentalists. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Los Alamos National Laboratory rec ...


Tonica Valla

New Wrinkle in the Mystery of High-Tc Superconductors

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created Mar 16, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

In the twenty years since the discovery of high-temperature (Tc) superconductors, scientists have been trying to understand the mechanism by which electrons pair up and move coherently to carry electrical current ...