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 ...

How exactly unconventional superconductivity arises is one of the central questions of modern solid-state physics. A new study published in the journal Nature provides crucial insights into this ...

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 ...

For the first time, physicists have demonstrated that a material's superconductivity can be altered by coupling it to an ...

For three decades, one quiet crystal has sat at the center of a fierce argument about how exotic superconductors really work. Now a new set of experiments has upended the favored explanation, forcing ...

Physicists have discovered that hidden magnetic order plays a key role in the pseudogap, a puzzling state of matter that appears just before certain materials become superconductors. Using an ...

At low enough temperatures, certain metals lose their electrical resistance and they conduct electricity without loss. This effect of superconductivity is known for more than hundred years and is well ...

The discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelate thin films in 2019 opened a new realm for superconductivity research after a decades-long search for superconductivity in nickel-based ...

A team of Princeton University physicists led by (from left) Professor Sanfeng Wu, Professor Nai Phuan Ong, and Dicke Fellow Tiancheng Song, are authors of a new study challenging the conventional ...

Superconductivity is a fascinating phenomenon in which certain materials exhibit zero electrical resistance and expel magnetic fields below a characteristic temperature, known as the critical ...

On April 8, 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes scribbled in pencil an almost unintelligible note into a kitchen notebook: “near enough null.” The note referred to the electrical resistance ...

Highly precise spectroscopy exposes a sixth-order nodal gap on PtBi 2 ’s Fermi arcs, confirming a long theorized topological superconducting phase. Study: Topological nodal i-wave superconductivity in ...