New light-based studies of Bi2212 superconductors reveal key insights into high-temperature superconductivity, advancing the ...

Copper-oxide (CuO2) superconductors, such as Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ (Bi2212), have unusually high critical temperatures. Optical ...

Boston College physicists have discovered a complex landscape of electronic states that can co-exist on a kagome lattice, resembling those in high-temperature superconductors, they reported this fall ...

When a team of scientists in South Korea published a paper last month claiming to have created the first room-temperature superconductor, the announcement caused more than a few heads to turn.

However, today's superconductors only work at extremely low temperatures—close to absolute zero. This makes quantum computers ...

This year, superconductivity — the flow of electric current with zero resistance — was discovered in three distinct materials. Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon. The ...

Japanese researchers uncovered the optical properties of lead-doped crystals, advancing understanding of high-temperature ...

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have uncovered the atomic-scale mechanics that enhance superconductivity in an iron-based material, a finding published recently in Nature.