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Towards a new test of general relativity?
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Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field for the first time in a laboratory. Under certain special conditions the effect is much larger than ...
Room temperature superconductivity: One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time identified a key component to unravelling the mystery of room temperature superconductivity, according to a paper published in today's edition of the scientific ...
Magnetic transistor could 'dial in' quantum effects
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A team of theoretical and experimental physicists from Rice University is preparing a unique probe in hopes of "dialing in" elusive quantum states called "quantum criticalities." The team is using nanotechnology to create ...
New 'metal sandwich' may break superconductor record
May 08, 2006 |
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After an exhaustive data search for new compounds, researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have discovered a theoretical "metal sandwich" that is expected to be a good superconductor. Superconductive ...
Superconducting motor to increase power density
May 24, 2007 |
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The field of electric motors has recently entered a new era. The electric motors that you see today in everything from washing machines, toys, and fans use the same basic principles as motors from 50 years ...
Scientists discover exotic quantum state of matter
Apr 24, 2008 |
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A team of scientists from Princeton University has found that one of the most intriguing phenomena in condensed-matter physics -- known as the quantum Hall effect -- can occur in nature in a way that no one ...
Breakthrough experiment on high-temperature superconductors
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New information about the metallic state from which high temperature superconductivity emerges, has been revealed in an innovative experiment performed at the University of Bristol.
First direct observations of spinons and holons
Jul 13, 2006 |
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The theory has been around for more than 40 years, but only now has it been confirmed through direct and unambiguous experimental results. Working at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) of the U.S. Department of ...
Researchers prove existence of new type of electron wave
Jul 04, 2007 |
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New research led by University of New Hampshire physicists has proved the existence of a new type of electron wave on metal surfaces: the acoustic surface plasmon, which will have implications for developments in nano-optics, ...
Physicists observe new property of matter
Nov 02, 2006 |
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Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have for the first time observed the spontaneous production of coherence within "excitons," the bound pairs of electrons and holes that enable semiconductors ...
UA physicist discovers exotic superconductivity
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University of Arizona Associate Professor of Physics Andrei Lebed has discovered that strong magnetism changes the basic, intrinsic properties of electrons flowing through superconductors, establishing an "exotic" ...
Researchers find the ties that bind electrons in high-temperature superconductivity
Apr 10, 2008 |
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For more than 20 years since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, scientists have been debating the underlying physical mechanism for this exotic phenomenon, which has the potential to revolutionize ...
The Quest for a New Class of Superconductors
Dec 20, 2007 |
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Fifty years after the Nobel-prize winning explanation of how superconductors work, a research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Edinburgh and Cambridge University are suggesting another ...
Two aloof elements would bind under pressure, perhaps forming a superconductor, researchers say
Jan 24, 2008 |
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It is the woeful truth: lithium (Li) and beryllium (Be) -- elements three and four, respectively, on the periodic table -- do not like each other.
Physicists report novel interaction between superconductivity and magnetism
Jan 11, 2008 |
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An international collaboration of researchers led by Morten Ring Eskildsen, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, has discovered an altogether new way in which superconducting electrons can interact ...
