Broken Cooper Pairs (IMAGE)

Brown University

Broken Cooper Pairs

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A research team led by a Brown University physicist has produced new evidence for an exotic superconducting state, first predicted a half-century ago, that can arise when a superconductor is exposed to a strong magnetic field. Magnetism breaks electron Cooper pairs that enable superconductivity. The new research shows that those unpaired electrons congregate into discrete bands along the superconducting material. Those bands remain capable of conducting supercurrent.

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Vesna Mitrovic / Brown University

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