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Physicists Figure Out A New Property Of Superconductivity

Physicists have found a property of superconductivity that may help scientists develop working superconductors at room temperature.

A new study by The University of Waterloo—published in Science—has revealed important details about what occurs during high-temperature superconductivity. The researchers were able to obtain evidence that indicated the presence of electron nematicity, a state in which electron clouds go into an aligned and directional order, in certain types of high-temperature superconductors.

Image: Simulation of Correlated Electrons for Superconducting Materials. Lucas K. Wagner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Argonne National Laboratory.

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