Superconductivity is the transmission of current with no resistive losses, and is one of the most active areas of condensed matter physics research.
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Why is high temperature superconductivity so hard to solve?
The phenomenon of high temperature superconductivity has been known for decades, particularly layered cuprate superconductors. We know the precise lattice structure of the materials. We know the band ...
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Can superconducting magnets fly (or repel the earth's core)?
If a superconducting magnet and appropriate power supply had just enough $I\cdot s$ (current $\cdot$ length) so that when it was perpendicular to the earth's magnetic field, the force of the ...
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Superconductivity reasons (Intutitive)
Superconductivity
I read in a book "Physics - Resnik and Halliday" the explanation of Type-I Superconductors{cold ones} that:
The Electrons that make up current at super-cool temperatures move in ...
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What are the easiest to get/make LN2 superconductors?
I am starting to build multistage Peltier cooler at the moment, and it should be able to reach -100C at least (but if I fail I can always get boring LN2).
Doing some experiments with superconductors ...
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Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Flux Quantization in superconductors
Why is the magnetic flux not quantized in a standard Aharonov-Bohm (infinite) solenoid setup, whereas in a superconductor setting, flux is quantized?
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Reference needed for Iron-based superconductors
Iron-based superconductor is a class of high-$T_c$ superconductors discovered in 2008.
Are there any review papers about these superconductors yet? If not, which are the key papers in the field?
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How is stable levitation possible?
This question is with reference to the video in this blog post: http://www.universetoday.com/90183/quantum-levitation-and-the-superconductor/
My question is the following: how is the disc stable in ...
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What do we know of superconductivity in thin layers?
motivated by another question, i wonder if there are special properties of superconductivity when restricted on 2D or very thin layers related to the effective permittivity in function of the ...
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Superconducting gap, temperature dependence: how to calculate this integral?
Tinkham (page 63) states that the temperature dependence of the gap energy of a superconductor $\Delta(T)$ can be calculated using the following integral:
How can this actually be carried out? I am ...
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Has BCS Cooper pair condensate been observed in experiment?
Feshbach resonance in s-wave scattering states a BCS Cooper pair condensation at B-field just above the resonance where the scattering length a <0. Just wondering if the condensation has been ...
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Interaction strength in BCS theory
I'm looking to plot the band gap $\Delta(T)$ as a function of temperature between $T = 0$ and $T = T_c$ by numerical evaluation of the band gap equation
$$\frac{1}{\mathcal{N}(0)V} = ...
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Literature Request: Introduction to d-wave superconductivity
I'm looking for a pedagogic introduction to d-wave superconductivity.
Ideally, this would involve a derivation of d-wave superconductivity and the form of the gap parameter from some fundamental ...
