News tagged with electron pairs

How the Milky Way killed off its satellites

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two researchers from Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg have revealed for the first time the existence of a new signature of the birth of the first stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Key ingredient: Change in material boosts prospects of ultrafast single-photon detector

By swapping one superconducting material for another, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a practical way to boost the efficiency of the world's fastest single-photon ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Superconductivity's third side unmasked

The debate over the mechanism that causes superconductivity in a class of materials called the pnictides has been settled by a research team from Japan and China. Superconductivity was discovered in the pnictides ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 42 | with audio podcast

Iron-pnictide electron orbital pairing promises higher-temperature superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- The quest to develop a so-called room-temperature superconductor – one that exhibits lossless electronic transmission – has long fueled both popular and scientific imagination. At ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Testing technicolor physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ramps up the rate and impact of its collisions, physicists hope to witness the emergence of the Higgs boson, an anticipated, but as-yet-unseen, fundamental ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Fleeting fluctuations in superconductivity disappear close to transition temperature

(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of an ongoing effort to uncover details of how high-temperature superconductors carry electrical current with no resistance, scientists at Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Department ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Electron 'pairing': Triplet superconductivity proven experientially for first time

Researchers at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel and Santa Barbara have made the first experimental breakthrough in quantum physics: Their studies on the "pairing behavior" of electrons have ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

New mechanism for superconductivity discovered in iron-based superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team at RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research organisation has experimentally determined the mechanism underlying the formation of electron pairs in iron-based high-temperature superconductors. ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of U.S. and Japanese scientists has shown for the first time that the spectroscopic "fingerprint" of high-temperature superconductivity remains intact well above the super chilly temperatures ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 8

New insights, and a new angle, on high-temperature superconductivity

(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 ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 6

Iron-arsenic superconductors in class of their own

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have experimentally demonstrated that the superconductivity mechanism in the recently-discovered iron-arsenide superconductors is unique compared to all other ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 5