For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build superconductors that operate at room temperature and transmit electricity with ...

A new technique has enabled a superconductor to surpass a 33-year-old temperature record, achieving -122 °C at room pressure.

A team at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden now reports a new way to improve that outlook by designing a material that supports superconductivity at higher temperatures while also standing ...

A theoretical framework published on the arXiv preprint server proposes that a new class of materials, called superconducting altermagnets, could generate and carry spin currents without any energy ...

Jiggling superfluid An artist’s depiction of a superfluid wave propagating through a layered superconductor. (Courtesy: ...

Researchers from the Texas Center for Superconductivity (TcSUH) and the department of physics at the University of Houston ...

Superconductivity is the ability to transmit energy without any resistance when an object is cooled to a certain temperature.

A sudden release of pressure allowed a copper-based compound to superconduct at the highest temperature yet for atmospheric pressure, a study claims.

Superconducting materials could play a crucial role in the energy-efficient applications of the future. However, several ...

In a significant development in the field of superconductivity, researchers have successfully achieved robust superconductivity in high magnetic fields using a newly created one-dimensional (1D) ...

A newly mapped form of superconductivity in uranium ditelluride emerges only under extremely strong magnetic fields, defying ...

MIT scientists have coaxed atoms into an exotic “edge state” for the first time, allowing them to flow completely friction-free. The breakthrough could lead to better superconductor materials. As ...