Scientists Discover a Strange New Quantum State Where Two Materials Meet
Artistic illustration of electrons interacting at the interface between a one-atom-thick material and a metal, forming an unusual…
Researchers Stretch a Quantum Material and Uncover Two Hidden Superconducting States
CsV3Sb5 is an unusual quantum material known as a kagome metal, named for the interconnected triangular pattern of…
‘Ghost’ of superconductivity survives even after the state vanishes
Superconductivity is supposed to be an all-or-nothing quantum state. Cool a material below a critical temperature, and electrons…
A Few Picoseconds Reveal Superconductivity’s Hidden Breaking Point
A current pulse lasting only a few picoseconds passes through a superconductor before magnetic vortices have time to…
1,000x Speedup: Scientists Just Broke Through a Major Quantum Computing Bottleneck
The new method has the potential to accelerate quantum computations by a factor of a thousand, bringing fault-tolerant…
Researchers Turned “Empty Space” Into a Tool for Superconductivity
Schematic of vacuum-fluctuation-enhanced superconductivity. Credit: USTC Researchers used a specially designed cavity to strengthen quantum vacuum fluctuations and…
Graphene superconductivity switched off, proving electrons drive it
Researchers have completely switched off superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by weakening interactions between electrons, providing strong evidence that…
MIT scientists watched electrons rebuild inside a quantum material; one phase grew like an ice crystal |
Deep inside a crystal cooled to nearly -230°C, MIT physicists have caught something rarely seen in quantum materials:…
Physicists Just Achieved Superconductivity at Highest Temperature Yet – Under Normal Pressure
Superconductive materials could revolutionize electronics – if only they weren’t so fussy. Coaxing materials into this state, where…
The Search for Room Temperature Superconductors Just Got a Huge AI Boost
YRu3B2 and LuRu3B2 gain their superconductivity from electrons forming flat bands in a kagome lattice, named after a…
Graphene can hold multiple states of superconductivity, a new study finds | MIT News
The ordinary graphite in pencil lead is proving to be surprisingly multifaceted at the microscale. In a study…
A superconductivity record that stood for 30 years has been broken
For more than 30 years, one number stood as a stubborn barrier in superconductivity research: 133 kelvin, or…