ThyssenKrupp VDM and Zenergy Power get funding for research into innovative wire

22-Mar-2010 - Zenergy Power GmbH has been granted additional funding to continue research activities in the field of renewable energies in collaboration with ThyssenKrupp VDM and three other research partners. The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany's federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia ...

Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Research creates a readout system for quantum simulation and computation

10-Nov-2009 - Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways. The work, published in the journal Nature, represents the first time scientists ...

Secrets behind high temperature superconductors revealed

24-Feb-2009 - Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Fribourg have found evidence that magnetism is involved in the mechanism behind high temperature superconductivity. Writing in Nature Materials , Dr Alan Drew from Queen Mary's Department of Physics and his colleagues at the ...

Investigating new materials with ultracold atoms

Researchers use optical lattices as a construction kit

09-Dec-2008 - The investigation of complex materials such as high-temperature superconductors is problematic because of the presence of disorder and many competing interactions in real crystalline materials. "This makes it difficult to identify the role of specific interactions and, in particular, to decide ...

Electron pairs precede high-temperature superconductivity

New method exploring 'energy gap' shows electron pairs exist before superconductivity sets in

07-Nov-2008 - Like astronomers tweaking images to gain a more detailed glimpse of distant stars, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have found ways to sharpen images of the energy spectra in high-temperature superconductors. These new imaging methods confirm that ...

Scientists reveal effects of quantum 'traffic jam' in high-temperature superconductors

Findings may point to new materials to get the current flowing at higher temperatures

29-Aug-2008 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues at Cornell University, Tokyo University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Colorado, have uncovered the first experimental evidence for why the transition ...

New theory for latest high-temperature superconductors

Rice, Rutgers physicists explain, predict properties of iron compounds

18-Aug-2008 - Physicists from Rice and Rutgers universities have published a new theory that explains some of the complex electronic and magnetic properties of iron "pnictides." In a series of startling discoveries this spring, pnictides were shown to superconduct at relatively high temperatures. The ...

Room temperature superconductivity

One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics

10-Jul-2008 - 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 current edition of the scientific journal Nature. The quest for room temperature superconductivity has ...

New rare-earth superconductors

08-Jul-2008 - J. Paul Attfield and colleagues from the University of Edinburgh have shown that using high pressure could double the number of a new group of high temperature superconductors. Motivated by the discovery of superconductivity in the first half of the rare earth series (F-doped RFeAsO with R = ...

Powerful superconductor is in a class all its own

30-May-2008 - Superconductivity has perplexed, astounded and inspired scientists ever since it was discovered in 1911. Now, in the latest of a century of surprises, researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University have discovered unusual properties in a novel ...