Physicists Unveil New Kind of Superconductivity

 In this 100th anniversary year of the discovery of superconductivity, physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology have published a fully self-consistent theory of the new kind of superconducting behavior, Type 1.5, this month in the journal Physical Review B.



The superflow of two kinds of superconducting electrons (arrows show their velocities) as calculated on supercomputers. Graphic 1 shows the first kind of supercurrent forming vortices.



The superflow of two kinds of superconducting electrons (arrows show their velocities) as calculated on supercomputers. Graphic 2 shows superflow of the other subpopulation of electrons on the surface of a vortex cluster.


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