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    Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in superconductors: materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic fields are...
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  • group published two papers claiming to have achieved room-temperature superconductivity, the first using carbonaceous sulfur hydride at extremely high pressure...
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    High-temperature superconductivity (high-Tc or HTS) is superconductivity in materials with a critical temperature (the temperature below which the material...
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    microscopic theory of superconductivity since Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's 1911 discovery. The theory describes superconductivity as a microscopic effect...
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  • room-temperature superconductor is a hypothetical material capable of displaying superconductivity above 0 °C (273 K; 32 °F), operating temperatures which are commonly...
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    Superconductivity is the phenomenon of certain materials exhibiting zero electrical resistance and the expulsion of magnetic fields below a characteristic...
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  • Color superconductivity is a phenomenon where matter carries color charge without loss, analogous to the way conventional superconductors can carry electric...
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    LK-99 (category Superconductivity)
    ferromagnetic and diamagnetic causes for observations that suggested superconductivity. A prominent cause was a copper sulfide impurity occurring during...
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    for his research on superconductivity, having discovered the highest critical temperature of 250 K (-23 °C) for superconductivity in lanthanum hydride...
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    Leon Cooper (category Superconductivity)
    neuroscientist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on superconductivity. Cooper developed the concept of Cooper pairs and collaborated with...
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    work would be his attempt to unify theories of superconductivity with his theory of hole superconductivity which suggests pairing of electron holes that...
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  • Unconventional superconductors are materials that display superconductivity which is not explained by the usual BCS theory or its extension, the Eliashberg...
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  • Conventional superconductors are materials that display superconductivity as described by BCS theory or its extensions. This is in contrast to unconventional...
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  • Cooper pair (category Superconductivity)
    electron–phonon interaction. The Cooper pair state is responsible for superconductivity, as described in the BCS theory developed by John Bardeen, Leon Cooper...
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  • Technological applications of superconductivity include: the production of sensitive magnetometers based on SQUIDs (superconducting quantum interference...
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  • "rapid communications" type of journal, concerned with the topic superconductivity, superconductive materials, and connected phenomena. Physica C is...
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    to liquefy helium for the first time, in 1908. He also discovered superconductivity in 1911. Kamerlingh Onnes was born in Groningen, Netherlands. His...
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    from the cuprates and may help lead to a theory of non-BCS-theory superconductivity. More recently these have been called the ferropnictides. The first...
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  • of more than 3000 candidate phases rules out conventional superconductivity. Superconductivity for sulfur hydrides without carbon was first reported in...
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    electronic switching and amplifying devices based on vacuum conductivity. Superconductivity is a phenomenon of exactly zero electrical resistance and expulsion...
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    family of crystalline chemical compounds that display high-temperature superconductivity; it includes the first material ever discovered to become superconducting...
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    developing the BCS theory, the first successful quantum theory of superconductivity. Schrieffer was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Louise (Anderson)...
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  • In the field of superconductivity, Anderson's theorem states that superconductivity in a conventional superconductor is robust with respect to (non-magnetic)...
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    the Tc can be 3.97 K. The superconductivity persists under high magnetic field (few teslas), that differs from superconductivity in In metal which is quenched...
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  • Transactions on Applied Superconductivity is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on applications of superconductivity and other relevant...
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    (pi-bonding). This is at odds with usual theories of phonon-mediated superconductivity which assume that all electrons behave in the same manner. Theoretical...
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  • Kohn–Luttinger superconductivity is a theoretical mechanism for unconventional superconductivity proposed by Walter Kohn and Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger...
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  • best-known examples of macroscopic quantum phenomena are superfluidity and superconductivity; other examples include the quantum Hall effect, Josephson effect...
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    December 2, 1941) is a Chinese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics. He is a professor of physics and T.L...
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    and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory. The transistor revolutionized the electronics...
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