{"id":92053,"date":"2019-06-14T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/electron-or-hole-pairs-may-survive-effort-to-kill-superconductivity"},"modified":"2019-06-14T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T00:44:10","slug":"electron-or-hole-pairs-may-survive-effort-to-kill-superconductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/electron-or-hole-pairs-may-survive-effort-to-kill-superconductivity","title":{"rendered":"Electron (or \u2018hole\u2019) pairs may survive effort to kill superconductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electron-or-hole-pairs-may-survive-effort-to-kill-superconductivity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists seeking to understand the mechanism underlying superconductivity in \u201cstripe-ordered\u201d cuprates\u2014copper-oxide materials with alternating areas of electric charge and magnetism\u2014discovered an unusual metallic state when attempting to turn superconductivity off. They found that under the conditions of their experiment, even after the material loses its ability to carry electrical current with no energy loss, it retains some conductivity\u2014and possibly the electron (or hole) pairs required for its superconducting superpower.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis work provides circumstantial evidence that the stripe-ordered arrangement of charges and magnetism is good for forming the charge-carrier pairs required for superconductivity to emerge,\u201d said John Tranquada, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Tranquada and his co-authors from Brookhaven Lab and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University, where some of the work was done, describe their findings in a paper just published in <i>Science Advances<\/i>. A related paper in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> by co-author Alexei Tsvelik, a theorist at Brookhaven Lab, provides insight into the theoretical underpinnings for the observations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-electron-hole-pairs-survive-effort.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists seeking to understand the mechanism underlying superconductivity in \u201cstripe-ordered\u201d cuprates\u2014copper-oxide materials with alternating areas of electric charge and magnetism\u2014discovered an unusual metallic state when attempting to turn superconductivity off. They found that under the conditions of their experiment, even after the material loses its ability to carry electrical current with no energy loss, it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}