The oxide superconductors, particularly those recently discovered that are based on La2CuO4, have a set of peculiarities that suggest a common, unique mechanism: they tend in every case to occur near a metal - insulator transition into an odd - electron insulator with
peculiar magnetic properties.
Not exact matches
For example, he is using data from AFLOWlib to study why some alloys can form metallic glass — a
peculiar form of metal with a disordered microscopic structure that gives it special electric and
magnetic properties.
Due to their
peculiar quantum mechanical
properties, currents induced by a
magnetic field in Moebius molecules flow in the direction opposite to that they would take in normal rings.