Quantum 'Traffic Jam' Revealed: Findings May Help Get Current Flowing At Higher Temperatures
Friday, August 29, 2008 - 09:28
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have uncovered the first experimental evidence for why the transition temperature of high-temperature superconductors cannot simply be elevated by increasing the electrons' binding energy. The research demonstrates how, as electron-pair binding energy increases, the electrons' tendency to get caught in a quantum mechanical "traffic jam" overwhelms the interactions needed for the material to act as a superconductor -- a freely flowing fluid of electron pairs.
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