We’ve been told all of our lives to avoid stress – but in physics, stress might just be the key to unlocking the secret of superconductivity. Superconductivity, the phenomenon in which the electrical ...

Researchers combined high magnetic fields with X-ray scattering to reveal the connection between superconducting vortices (black circles), charge density waves (red wiggles), and spin density waves ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. For decades, a family of crystals has stumped physicists with its baffling ability to superconduct—that is, carry ...

Researchers from the USA and India have proposed that Floquet Majorana fermions may improve quantum computing by controlling superconducting currents, potentially reducing errors and increasing ...

The quest for room-temperature superconductivity has just taken a major step forward. A team of physicists has discovered ...

Graphene is a simple material composed of only one layer of carbon atoms, but when two sheets of it are stacked together and offset at a slight angle, the resulting twisted bilayer material produces ...

Superconductivity is a state in which a material can conduct electricity without resistance. Normally, when electricity flows through a wire, some of it is lost as heat due to resistance. This is why ...

Superconductivity was discovered around a century ago in mercury that had been cooled to nearly absolute zero 2. A large number of metals and their alloys display superconductivity when cooled to a ...

Superconductors (materials that conduct electricity without resistance) have fascinated physicists for more than a century. While conventional superconductors are well understood, a new class of ...

A puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic fields has been mapped and explained by a research team including Andriy Nevidomskyy, professor of physics and astronomy at ...

Rice's Andriy Nevidomskyy is part of a team that has mapped and explained a puzzling form of superconductivity that arises only under strong magnetic fields. Traditionally, scientists have regarded ...