A Princeton-led team of physicists have discovered that, under certain conditions, interacting electrons can create what are called “topological quantum states,” which, has implications for…
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A cube of magnetic material levitates above a superconductor. The field of the magnet induces currents in the superconductor that generate an equal and opposite…
An illustration showing how highly nanostructured 3-D superconducting materials can be created based on DNA self-assembly. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory Complex 3D nanoscale architectures based…
Superconductivity is a phenomenon where an electric circuit loses its resistance and becomes extremely efficient under certain conditions. There are different ways in which this…
Professor Somnath Bhattacharyya next to the vapor deposition chamber that is used to produce diamonds in the lab. Credit: Wits University The discovery of triplet…
Professor of physics Andrew Jordan and his colleagues will use superconducting circuits to design experiments that can be carried out within a realistic quantum system,…
For decades Z-X Shen has ridden a wave of curiosity about the strange behavior of electrons that can levitate magnets. Zhi-Xun Shen vividly remembers his…
Figure 1. Schematic of the metal-like quantum gas. Credit: NINS/IMS Electronic properties of condensed matter are often determined by an intricate competition between kinetic energy…
Artist’s rendering of electron spins frustrated as the sample of magnetic material is pressurized into a spin liquid state. Credit: Daniel Haskel Using two flat-top…
An optical image of the graphene device on a silicon dioxide/silicon chip. Shining metal wires are connected to gold electrodes for electrical measurement. Credit: Guorui…
Illustration of a zirconium vanadium hydride atomic structure at near ambient conditions as determined using neutron vibrational spectroscopy and the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge…
Ultrafast pulses of extreme ultraviolet light are created in a gas jet of white plasma, and are visible as blue dots on a phosphor screen…
Illustration of a Monte Carlo simulation, where a calculation is run billions of times in slightly different ways to arrive at a range of possible…
A new study proposed a scheme to achieve ultrahigh reduced transition temperature, up to Tc/TF ~ 1, in two-component atomic Fermi gases, a system that…
Study explores how superconductivity forms in iron-based materials. An international team led by researchers at Princeton University has directly observed a surprising quantum effect in…
Tiny holes punched into a high-temperature superconducting material revealed that Cooper pairs, electron duos that enable superconductivity, can also conduct electricity the way metals do.…
Crystal structure of thorium decahydride, ThH10. Credit: Dmitry Semenok et al./Materials Today A group of scientists led by Artem Oganov of Skoltech and the Moscow…
Scientists can define and tune patterns of superconductivity. Credit: EPFL Superconductivity has fascinated scientists for many years since it offers the potential to revolutionize current…
A stylized version of a racetrack nanosandblasted on lithium niobate, where photons are coaxed to interact with each other under low energy conditions. The new…