Superconductivity

The secrets of world’s thinnest superconductor uncovered

The work could transform the fields of medical diagnostics, quantum computing, and energy transport.

The world’s first room-temperature superconductor

First room-temperature superconductor excites — and baffles — scientists.

New evidence for quantum fluctuations near a quantum critical point in a superconductor

Pinning down where this particular quantum critical point might be.

A tiny step forward toward achieving room-temperature superconductivity

Room temperature superconductivity creeping toward possibility.

Understanding the physics of high-temperature superconductivity

High-temperature superconductors already revolutionized existing technologies. However, there is still a lack of understanding to create these complex materials for widespread application. Higgs spectroscopy could...

Scientists discovered superconducting currents traveling along the outer edges of a superconductor

Scientists at Princeton University have detected superconducting currents along the exterior edge of a superconducting material. This discovery indicates a pathway for topological superconductivity...

Scientists detected trace amounts of superconducting material in Meteorite

Meteorites can contain a wide range of material phases due to the extreme environments found in space. They are ideal candidates to search for...

The study explains why superconductivity takes place in graphene

On its own, a sheet of graphene is a semimetal—its electrons interact only weakly with each other. But as experimentalists discovered in 2018, the...

Controlling superconducting regions within an exotic metal

A metallic microdevice in which they can define and tune patterns of superconductivity.

Scientists finally found superconductivity in place they’ve been looking for decades

The Hubbard model used to understand electron behavior in numerous quantum materials, now shows us its stripes, and superconductivity too, in simulations for cuprate superconductors.

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