Sentences with phrase «how electrons pair»
This chummy behavior resembles how electrons pair up in materials that conduct current without resistance, known as superconductors, researchers report in a paper accepted in Physical Review Letters.
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How far it goes in depends on the nature of the electron pairing, and changes as the material is cooled down further and further.
Electrons hop from copper ion to copper ion and somehow pair, although physicists do not agree about how that happens.
«Researchers amplify the pulse and measure its height and from that figure out how much energy created the electron - hole pairs,» ORNL's David Radford said.
One of the greatest mysteries is seeking to understand how the electrons in high - temperature superconductors interact, sometimes trying to avoid each other and at other times pairing up - the crucial characteristic enabling them to carry current with no resistance.
The attached figure illustrates how energetic gamma rays (dashed lines) from a distant blazar strike photons of extragalactic background light (wavy lines) and produce pairs of electrons and positrons.
This tells scientists how the electrons inside the sample are behaving; in superconductors they pair up to conduct electricity without resistance.