Prediction of superconductivity in compounds based on iridium oxide opens a new chapter for superconductors
Friday, May 31, 2013 - 07:30
in Physics & Chemistry
High-temperature superconductors are some of the most widely studied materials in physics, where the discovery of new compounds often provides insight into the complex physics that underlies them, as well as revealing interesting new electronic phenomena. Seiji Yunoki and colleagues from the Computational Quantum Matter Research Team at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science may have made such a discovery through their prediction of an unconventional superconducting phase in compounds based on iridium oxide.