Researchers at Brown University have found that Cooper pairs of electrons can model three total phases of matter—and the third is new. The four observable everyday states of matter are just the ...

Noise protection: An optical micrograph of the circuit used in the experiment, showing aluminium electrodes in light grey and niobium electrodes in dark grey. The insets are scanning electron ...

New research shows how Cooper pairs -- quasiparticles that make superconductivity possible -- can also play an opposite role in an exotic type of insulating materials known as Cooper pair insulators.

Scientists have found a key process required for superconductivity occurring at higher temperatures than previously thought. It could be a small but significant step in the search for one of the "holy ...

Qubit material: A figure that schematically shows how split Cooper pairs might be fed into a quantum computer that operates with entangled electrons. (Courtesy: Fredrik Brange) Entangled particles – ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Nearly a century ago, Dutch physicist Kamerlingh Onnes discovered that some metals transform into perfect electrical conductors when cooled to temperatures near ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- For years, physicists have assumed that Cooper pairs, the electron duos that enable superconductors to conduct electricity without resistance, were two-trick ...

New technical paper titled “Magnifying Quantum Phase Fluctuations with Cooper-Pair Pairing” from researchers at Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Diderot, Inria de Paris, PSL ...

A possible method for probing the properties of exotic particles that exist on the surfaces of an unusual type of ...

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