Cooper pairs

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Physicists observe long-expected helium superfluid phase

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Scicomm Anthony Leggett BCS theory Cooper pairs helium 3 A phase helium 3 ß phase helium 3 P phase helium 3 superfluidity helium 4 helium-3 nematic aerogel neutron stars superconductivity symmetry-breaking Vladimir Dmitriev

Physicists have reported that they have finally observed helium 3 existing in a long-predicted type of superfluid, called the ß phase. This is an important discovery, if it's borne out, for reaso…

The awesome limits of superconductors

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Scicomm Abrikosov vortex lattice Abrikosov vortices BCS theory Bose-Einstein condensate CERN Cooper pairs copper electrical conductivity electrical resistivity electrons flux-flow resistance Joule heating Large Hadron Collider Lisa Randall magnesium diboride magnetic flux Meissner effect niobium Pauli's exclusion principle Praveen Chaddah protons silver superconductors superfluid helium titanium type I superconductors type II superconductors vortex pinning

On June 24, a press release from CERN said that scientists and engineers working on upgrading the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had "built and operated … the most powerful electrical transmission l…

Superconductivity: From Feshbach to Fermi

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Uncategorized 1-2-3 superconductors absolute zero BCS theory Bose-Einstein condensates Cooper pairs crystal lattice Fermi energy Fermi-Dirac statistics Feshbach resonance Meissner effect Pauli's exclusion principle phonons superconductivity

(This post is continued from this one.) After a bit of searching on Wikipedia, I found that the fundamental philosophical underpinnings of superconductivity were to be found in a statistical concept…