Open Questions: Superconductivity
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Site indexes
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Superconductor Links
- An extensive categorized list from the
Superconductors.org site.
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Galaxy: Superconductivity
- Categorized site directory. Entries usually include
descriptive annotations.
Sites with general resources
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Superconductors
- Excellent general site about superconductivity. The site
includes
historical information,
uses for
superconductors, and
superconductor news. There is also an extensive page of
external links.
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Best of Physics Web: Superconductivity
- Directory of best feature articles, news stories, and
external links on superconductivity at the
Physics Web site.
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Center for Superconductivity Research
- Home page of research factility at the University of Maryland.
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Nanoscale Superconductivity and Magnetism
- Web site of a research group studying superconductivity and
magnetism. Contains an overview of the work, recent publications,
and
external links.
Surveys, overviews, tutorials
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Superconductivity
- Article from
Wikipedia.
See also
High-temperature superconductivity,
High-temperature superconductor.
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High-temperature uncertainty
- Summary of July 2005 article from
Physics World, by
Tom Timusk.
"Recent experiments reveal that the mechanism responsible for
the superconducting properties of cuprate materials is even
more mysterious than we thought."
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Lithium feels the pressure to become a superconductor
- December 2002 article from
Physics World, by
Michael Hanfland. "Lithium might be a 'simple metal' under
normal conditions but under extreme pressures it becomes a
superconductor with one of the highest critical temperatures
of all the elements."
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A star role for stripes
- June 2002 article from
Physics World, by
John Tranquada. "New images of magnetic and charge order in
copper-oxide compounds are providing important clues about the
nature of high-temperature superconductors."
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New frontiers in superconductivity
- January 2002 article from
Physics World,
by Valerie Jamieson.
"Basic research into the electrical and thermal properties of metallic,
magnetic and organic materials is leading to the discovery of novel
superconductors."
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Ferromagnetic superconductors
- January 2002 article from
Physics World, by
Jacques Flouquet and Alexandre Buzdin. "The recent discovery of magnetic
materials that are also superconductors has reconciled two physical
phenomena that were previously thought to be incompatible."
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New metallic superconductor makes an immediate impact
- April 2001 article from
Physics World,
by Colin Gough. "The recent chance discovery that magnesium diboride
becomes superconducting at 40 K has sparked a race to uncover its
basic properties and to process the material for applications."
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Industry warms to superconductors
- March 2000 article from
Physics World,
by Jeffrey Tallon. "While theorists have been battling to
understand high-temperature superconductivity, industrialists
have been developing a wide range of devices that are set to
enter a global marketplace that is potentially worth billions
of dollars."
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The underdoped phase of cuprate superconductors
- February 2000 article from
Physics World,
by Bertram Batlogg and Chandra M Varma.
"The origin of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprate materials is
one of the biggest puzzles in physics, but the behaviour of these
materials when they are not superconducting is an even bigger mystery."
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Explaining high-Tc superconductors
- December 1999 article from
Physics World,
by Maurice Rice.
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Superconductor stripes move on
- November 1999 article from
Physics World,
by John Tranquada.
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Metal superconductors reach new high
- February 2001 news article from
PhysicsWeb about superconductivity
in magnesium diboride.
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Twisters turn up the current in superconductors
- February 2001 article from
PhysicsWeb about a spike in
current near the superconducting temperature limit.
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Exciting times for superconductors
- February 2001 article from
PhysicsWeb about using the
BCS theory to explain new superconductivity findings.
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New superconductor gets ready for applications
- May 2001 new article from
PhysicsWeb about
the potential of magnesium diboride to be used in applications.
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Superconductivity: getting warmer
- September 2000 news article from
PhysicsWeb about
a new high-temperature superconducting material that can support
large current densities.
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Breaking through the quantum limit
- September 2000 news article from
PhysicsWeb about magnetic
flux in a superconducting film.
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Can spin fluctuations explain superconductivity?
- September 1999 news article from
PhysicsWeb about a new
theory of high-temperature superconductivity.
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Superconductivity debate gets ugly
- October 1998 news article from
PhysicsWeb about the
"bipolaron" theory of superconductivity.
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Magnetic superglue promotes superconductivity
- July 1998 news article from
PhysicsWeb.
"Researchers at Cambridge University in the UK have discovered
that the electron pairs in certain superconductors are held
together by 'magnetic glue'."
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New Trick from Old Dog
- June 2001 story from Scientific American on newly
discovered superconducting properties of magnesium boride.
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Different Stripes
- August 2000 story from Scientific American subtitled
"Physicists still struggle to explain high-temperature
superconductivity."
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No Resistance
- August 2000 story from Scientific American on real-world
uses for high-temperature superconductors.
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Super Finding on Superconductivity
- March 2000 Scientific American Explore article
on the search for room-temperature superconducting materials,
subtitled "Scientists take a crucial step toward creating new
materials with zero resistance at room-temperature."
- High-Temp Knockout
Graham P. Collins
Scientific American, April 2004
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Little Big Wire
Peter Weiss
Science News, November 18, 2000, pp. 330-332
- Despite serious difficulties in fabricating high-temperature
superconducting materials into wires and other electical components,
progress is being made.
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