Light tsunami in a superconductor

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 09:30 in Physics & Chemistry

Superconductors are materials which conduct electric currents without any resistance. Scientists have managed to selectively influence this resistance-free conductivity with a powerful terahertz laser. This very precise laser light turns into a vortex which moves through the superconductor like a tsunami.

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