Sentences with phrase «superconductors electrons pair»

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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.

PHOTON PAIRS Laser light in water (shown) exhibits an unexpected quirk: Light particles interact with their companions in the same way electrons pair up in superconductors.

In an ordinary superconductor, electrons, which carry a spin of 1/2, pair up and flow uninhibited with the help of vibrations in the atomic structure.

The effect appeared in a variety of transparent materials, says Jorio, and it was observed at room temperature, unlike electron pairing in superconductors.

When the incoming electron meets the superconductor, it pairs up with another electron in the material to form a duo known as a Cooper pair.

Superconductivity is characterised by the way the electrons interact: within a superconductor electrons form pairs, and the spin alignment between the electrons of a pair may be different depending on the type — or «symmetry» — of superconductivity involved.

In a superconductor, certain electrons seek a mate and combine into pairs.

In contrast, the relatively high - temperature superconductors are thought to work when electrons are paired at the average distance between them — and this is what was seen between the atoms in this fermionic condensate.

In a conventional superconductor electrons with opposite spins are paired together so that a flow of electrons carries zero spin.

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 devices are named after Brian Josephson, who predicted in 1962 that pairs of superconducting electrons could «tunnel» right through the nonsuperconducting barrier from one superconductor to another.

Once a pair has reached the other side of the barrier and is out of the superconductor, the electrons» natural repulsion kicks in and the pair splits apart, says Schönenberger.

But until now, physicists have struggled to extract the entangled electron pairs from the superconductor then split them apart, Schönenberger explains.

This alleviates the quantum traffic jam so that, when the material is cooled to a certain temperature, oppositely aligned electrons (magnetic partners where the «spin» of one electron points up and the adjacent one points down) form pairs and then become free to zip through the material unimpeded - a superconductor.

This tells scientists how the electrons inside the sample are behaving; in superconductors they pair up to conduct electricity without resistance.

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First experimental evidence of «orbital - selective» electron pairing in an iron - based high - temperature superconductor.

A team of scientists has found evidence for a new type of electron pairing that may broaden the search for new high - temperature superconductors.