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Study Yields Surprising New Insight into High-Temp Superconductors
Mar 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, an international group of researchers discovered that the underlying mechanism producing high-temperature superconductivity in a widely studied class of copper-oxygen-based superconductors may be ...
Scientists Discover Material Harder Than Diamond
Feb 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, diamond is regarded to be the hardest known material in the world. But by considering large compressive pressures under indenters, scientists have calculated that a material called ...
High-Temp Superconducting Nanowire System is First of its Kind
Nov 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have, for the first time, created an array of nanowires that are superconducting at relatively high temperatures. This work, published ...
'Single-Crystal' Superconductors are a Big Step for the Field
Aug 28, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In key advances for the field of superconductivity, a research group has created versions of a class of widely studied superconducting compounds that are each one continuous crystal, rather ...
Breaking down superfluidity
Sep 04, 2007 |
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“One of the most exciting areas of research in the last few years has been the realization of the BEC-BCS crossover,” Wolfgang Ketterle tells PhsyOrg.com. Ketterle and a team of scientists at the MIT-Harvard Center for Ul ...
Physicists create first superconductor hybrid nanoscale heat transistor
Jul 25, 2007 |
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Low temperature research has been at the forefront of cooling applications for quite some time. One project, a nanoscale heat transistor, has been built in Finland in cooperation with an Italian researcher at the Helsinki ...
Attempting to unlock the secrets of superfluidity
May 31, 2007 |
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Ever since superfluidity was discovered in liquid helium, scientists have been searching for its causes, and exploring the different phases of matter in which superflow might exist (gases, liquids and solids).
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 ...
Maglev launch assist technology may enable commercial space travel
Feb 21, 2007 |
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The same technology used in magnetically levitated ("maglev") trains may give spaceships a low-cost, stable boost for the future of space travel—possibly even for joy rides. A research group from two universities ...
A way to detect a new quantum phase
Sep 27, 2006 |
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“So many systems in physics look different and do different things,” Luming Duan tells PhysOrg.com. “But when you get to fundamentals they look very similar. We are looking for new fundamentals that can help us understand differ ...
UA physicist discovers exotic superconductivity
Aug 16, 2006 |
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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" ...
Imaging Challenges Theory of High-temperature Superconductivity
Aug 02, 2006 |
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By observing events at the scale of single atoms, Cornell researchers have found evidence that the mechanism in high-temperature superconductors may be much more like that in low-temperature superconductors ...
MIT physicists shed new light on superfluidity
Jul 20, 2006 |
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For the first time, MIT scientists have directly observed the transition of a gas to a superfluid, a form of matter closely related to the superconductors that allow electrical currents to travel without resistance.
Using silicon chips to trap ultra-cold atoms
Jun 26, 2006 |
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The long-term goal of Professor J. H. Thywissen's physics lab at the University of Toronto is to be able to tailor a system with a Hamiltonian which simulates a high temperature superconductor.
Scientists design Maglev car with greater stability
Jun 02, 2006 |
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Since the late ‘60s, scientists have been designing, building and operating “flying trains,” or magnetically levitated (“Maglev”) systems. However, the sci-fi-like technology still faces challenges for increased ...
