BCS theory

lanthanum hydride, lanthanum decahydride, polyhydride, clathrate compounds, superconductivity, high temperature superconductor, room temperature superconductor, IISc superconductor, IISc superconductivity, Arindam Ghosh, BCS theory, Cooper pairs,

Why You Should Care That Lanthanum Hydride Is a Superconductor at High Pressure

Vijay B. Shenoy 28/05/2019

Why would anyone be interested in a material that...

Brian Skinner, gold-silver nanoparticles, Indian Institute of Science, Dev Kumar Thapa, Anshu Pandey, magnetic susceptibility, inductance, resistivity, electrical resistance, nanomaterials,

IISc Team Reconfirms Its Superconductivity Claim but Doubts Linger

R. Ramachandran 27/05/2019

Ten months ago, two scientists from IISc Bangalore made...

room temperature superconductivity, room temperature superconductor, superconductor, sodalite, clathrate compounds, lanthanum hydride, hydrogen sulphide, sulphur hydride, BCS theory, Meissner effect, magnetic field, diamagnetism, type II superconductor, bismuth, density functional theory, superhydride compounds, lanthanum decahydride, TV Ramakrishnan, mass number, Neil Ashcroft, Vitaly Ginzburg, Mikhail Eremets, high pressure,

Under Enormous Pressure, a New Superconductor Star Is Born

Vasudevan Mukunth 25/05/2019

When subject to a force of 1.6 million atmospheres,...

Steven Kivelson, condensed matter physics, solid state physics, superconductors, high temperature superconductor, quantum computers, materials science, emergent properties, quantum mechanics, Ising model, statistical mechanics, BCS theory, unconventional superconductors, Bob Schrieffer, Julian Schwinger, arXiv, preprint papers, Hubbard model, Holstein model,

Interview: A Walk With Steven Kivelson Through the Realm of Strange Materials

Sounak Biswas and Prashant Kocherlakota 03/02/2019

Talking emergence, superconductors, preprint servers and quantum computers with...

Brian Skinner, gold-silver nanoparticles, Indian Institute of Science, Dev Kumar Thapa, Anshu Pandey, magnetic susceptibility, inductance, resistivity, electrical resistance, nanomaterials,

Did IISc Team Find a Room-Temperature Superconductor? The Devil’s in the Details

R. Ramachandran 06/08/2018

Theorists think the data is "clean". Experimentalists aren't convinced...

A 99.99% pure bismuth crystal. The metal has been found to become a superconductor at a higher temperature than thought. Credit: maticulous/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Indian Finding Poses New Challenge to Nobel-Winning Theory About Superconductors

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/12/2016

New experiment at TIFR in Mumbai disproves a prediction...

Yoichiro Nambu in 2008. Source: University of Chicago

Yoichiro Nambu, the Silent Revolutionary in Particle Physics, is Dead

Vasudevan Mukunth 18/07/2015

In the overall history of investigations into particle physics,...