Sentences with phrase «in cuprate»

Michael Lawler, assistant professor of physics at Binghamton, is part of an international team of physicists with an ongoing interest in the mysterious pseudogap phase, the phase situated between insulating and superconducting phases in the cuprate phase diagram.

In cuprate superconductors, another state blocks and interacts with superconductivity: the charge - density - wave, in which the electrons assume a static pattern, different from the pattern that the material's crystal structure defines.

More than a decade after the discovery of high - transition temperature superconductivity in cuprate materials, its mechanism is still a matter of contentious debate.

We have directly determined the structural dynamics of such a nonequilibrium phase transition in a cuprate superconductor.

In the late 90's, Prof. Leggett of the University of Illinois presented a scenario for high Tc superconductivity in the cuprates, materials consisting primarily of copper and oxygen.

Having observed this unexpected state in the cuprates and iron - pnictides, scientists were eager to see whether this unusual electronic order would also be observed in a new class of titanium - oxypnictide high - temperature superconductors discovered in 2013.

While electrons in common metals behave as a liquid, in cuprates they behave as an electronic liquid crystal.

«We now believe these density waves exist in all cuprates,» says Lawler, a theorist whose contribution to the research involved subtle uses of the Fourier transform, a mathematical analysis that's useful when examining amplitude patterns in waves.

K. Foyevtsova, J. T. Krogel, J. Kim, P. R. C. Kent, E. Dagotto, and F. A. Reboredo, «Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo calculations of spin superexchange in cuprates: the benchmarking case of Ca2CuO3,» Physical Review X 4 031003...

Not exact matches

The new materials resemble the cuprates in some striking ways.

«It's possible that these materials will provide a cleaner system to work with, and suddenly [the physics of] the cuprates will become clearer,» says Hai - Hu Wen, a physicist at the Institute of Physics (IoP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Physicists around the world are hailing the discovery of the new iron - and - arsenic compounds as a major advance, as the only other high - temperature superconductors are the copper - and - oxygen compounds, or cuprates, that were discovered in 1986.

They proposed a new way to study a cuprate, one that no other group had tried: a powerful imaging technique developed by Davis, called sublattice imaging - which is performed using a specialized scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of determining the electronic structure in different subsets of the atoms in the crystal, the so - called sublattices.

But after three decades of ensuing research, exactly how cuprate superconductivity works remains a defining problem in the field.

Nickel - based oxides — nickelates — have long been considered as potential cuprate analogs because the element sits immediately adjacent to copper in the periodic table.

In 1986, however, discovery of high - temperature superconductivity in copper oxide compounds called cuprates engendered new technological potential for the phenomenoIn 1986, however, discovery of high - temperature superconductivity in copper oxide compounds called cuprates engendered new technological potential for the phenomenoin copper oxide compounds called cuprates engendered new technological potential for the phenomenon.

While the basis of conventional superconductivity is understood, researchers are still exploring the theory of high - temperature superconductivity in copper - based materials called cuprates.

«This is the first demonstration of quasiparticle imaging and tunneling spectroscopy at individual impurity atoms in complex materials like the cuprate - oxides,» Davis adds.

That is, until Comin's latest results in Science, which show that the cuprate superconductor in question has a stripe - like pattern rather than a checkerboard one.

In this research, Lawler and his colleagues focused on a member of the cuprate class of superconductors called bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide (BSCCO).

The latest breakthrough in superconductors, which will be published March 20 in Science, answers a key question on the microscopic electronic structure of cuprate superconductors, the most celebrated material family in our quest for true room - temperature superconductivity.

Ever since cuprate (copper - containing) superconductors were first discovered in 1986, they have greatly puzzled researchers.

Three energy scales characterizing the competing pseudogap state, the incoherent, and the coherent superconducting state in high - Tc cuprates