The research team from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, and other institutions has published its results in Science. "The electron pairs are telling us that they are ready to ...

Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory While atoms are known to wiggle very fast, dopants added to a cuprate superconductor can also cause atoms to meander very slowly. An SLAC ...

Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used an improved X-ray technique to explore exotic states of matter in an unconventional superconductor that conducts electricity with 100% ...

Newswise — The particle accelerators that enable high-energy physics and serve many fields of science, such as materials, medical, and fusion research, are driven by superconducting magnets that are, ...

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory scientists are embedding elementary particles into a layered nickel oxide superconductor to learn more about its magnetic properties. Nickelates, the scientists ...

The next generation of cutting-edge accelerator magnets is no longer just an idea. Recent tests revealed that the United States and CERN have successfully co-created a prototype superconducting ...

The scientific community has been abuzz the past few weeks because of two pre-print articles released on arXiv claiming the discovery of a room temperature superconductor, LK-99. (Read the papers here ...

The finding could help future efforts to design superconductors that work at higher temperatures. For the past century since their discovery, superconductors and their mysterious atomic properties ...

Berkeley Lab researchers are developing an approach to avoid sudden, potentially destructive energy releases in a new generation of superconducting magnets. The particle accelerators that enable ...