electrical conductivity

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Part light, part matter

Nov 28, 2025 4 min read

Consider a bunch of molecules that have been trapped between two mirrors facing each other very closely. In this 'box' the light can't move around freely; it can only exist in certain fixe…

The awesome limits of superconductors

Jul 5, 2020 8 min read

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…