For more than a century, condensed matter physics has grappled with one of its greatest unsolved challenges: how to build ...

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A decades-old superconducting mystery just took a surprising turn. Strontium ruthenate, a material that conducts electricity with zero resistance at low temperatures, has long puzzled scientists with ...

One of the biggest headaches in quantum computing is errors. Qubits are super fragile, and any little disturbance from the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Separate two superconductors with a thin layer of material and something strange happens. Their superconductivity — a property driven by paired electrons that allows electricity to ...

The finding could help future efforts to design superconductors that work at higher temperatures. For the past century since their discovery, superconductors and their mysterious atomic properties ...

Superconductors sit at the heart of some of the most ambitious technologies on the horizon, from lossless power grids to practical quantum computers, yet finding new ones has long been a slow, ...

A superconductor made from germanium, a material commonly used to build computer chips, could one day create better and more reliable quantum computers. Superconductors are materials that conduct ...