Superconductivity

News Superconductivity

• On the road to conductors of the future
  

  Superconducting wires can transport electricity without loss. This would allow for less power production, reducing both costs and greenhouse gasses. Unfortunately, extensive cooling stands in the way, because existing superconductors only lose their resistance at extremely low temperatures. In the j more

• A tiny instrument to measure the faintest magnetic fields
  

  Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a minuscule instrument able to detect extremely faint magnetic fields. At the heart of the superconducting quantum interference device are two atomically thin layers of graphene, which the researchers combined with boron nitride. Instruments like more

• Attention, the electron is too fast!
  

  It is very hard to take a photo of a hummingbird flapping its wings 50 times per second. The exposure time has to be much shorter than the characteristic time scale of the wing beat, otherwise you will only see a colorful blur. A very similar problem is encountered in solid-state physics, where the more

Videos Superconductivity

Levitating Superconductor on a Möbius strip

Andy takes a closer look at one of his favourite demos from the 2012 Christmas Lectures, bringing together a levitating superconductor and a bewildering Möbius strip made from over 2,000 magnets. more

Origin of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Copper-Oxide Compound

Brookhaven Lab physicist Ivan Bozovic explains why a copper-oxide compound can conduct electricity without resistance at temperatures well above those required by conventional superconductors. more

Publications Superconductivity

• Pressure induced the evolution of structures and properties for iron tetraboride

  Iron tetraboride (FeB4) are attracting increasing attention due to their attractive electronic and mechanical properties (e.g., superconductivity and superhard). Using particle swarm optimization (PSO) combined with first-principles calculations, we systemically studied the structural phase and prop more

• Retrospective of Charles Pence Slichter (NAS 1967) [Retrospectives]

  Charles Pence Slichter died on February 19 of this year at the age of 94. Charlie, as he was known to his friends, was one of the giants of postwar physics, a pioneer of electron and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and a renowned expert on superconductivity, a remarkably influential educator, and more

• Superconductivity in two-dimensional phosphorus carbide ([small beta]0-PC)

  Two-dimensional (2D) boron has been predicted to show superconductivity. However, intrinsic 2D carbon and phosphorus have not been reported to be superconductors, which has inspired us to study the superconductivity of their mixture. Here we performed first-principles calculations for the electronic more