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Scientists have found a key process required for superconductivity occurring at higher temperatures than previously thought. It could be a small but significant step in the search for one of the"holy grails" of physics, a superconductor that operates at room temperature.
"The electron pairs are telling us that they are ready to be superconducting, but something is stopping them," co-author Ke-Jun Xu, a graduate student in applied physics at Stanford University, said in a statement."If we can find a new method to synchronize the pairs, we could apply that to possibly building higher temperature superconductors."
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.Cooper pairs follow different quantum mechanical rules than those of lone electrons. Instead of stacking outward in energy shells, they act like particles of light, an infinite number of which can occupy the same point in space at the same time.
To investigate further, the scientists behind the new research turned to a cuprate known as neodymium cerium copper oxide.This material's maximum superconducting temperature is relatively low at minus 414.67 F , so scientists haven't bothered to study it much. But when the study researchers shone ultraviolet light onto its surface they observed something strange.
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