For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build ...

A team at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden now reports a new way to improve that outlook by designing a material ...

Superconductivity occurs when electrons in a metal pair up and move through the material without resistance. But there may be more to the story than we thought, as scientists in Germany have now ...

Researchers from the Texas Center for Superconductivity (TcSUH) and the department of physics at the University of Houston ...

Superconducting materials could play a crucial role in the energy-efficient applications of the future. However, several ...

Researchers have confirmed that the spinel compound CuIr2S4, long studied for its unusual metal-insulator transition, becomes ...

In a significant development in the field of superconductivity, researchers have successfully achieved robust superconductivity in high magnetic fields using a newly created one-dimensional (1D) ...

First discovered by Dutch physicist Heike Onnes in the early 20th century, superconductivity is a rare phenomenon observed in metallic materials where its resistance to electrons flow was lost at ...

Jiggling superfluid An artist’s depiction of a superfluid wave propagating through a layered superconductor. (Courtesy: ...

A newly mapped form of superconductivity in uranium ditelluride emerges only under extremely strong magnetic fields, defying ...

Initially regarded as a scientific curiosity upon its discovery in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, superconductivity has provided physicists with numerous theoretical challenges and experimental ...

MIT scientists have coaxed atoms into an exotic “edge state” for the first time, allowing them to flow completely friction-free. The breakthrough could lead to better superconductor materials. As ...