An Unbiased Observation of Strange Metals and Superconductivity (IMAGE)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

An Unbiased Observation of Strange Metals and Superconductivity

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Illustration of a Monte Carlo simulation, where a calculation is run billions of times in slightly different ways to arrive at a range of possible results (far right), which are then averaged to determine the exact result. Each colored line represents a different run. A study at SLAC and Stanford used Monte Carlo simulations to make the first unbiased observations of a phenomenon called 'strange metallicity' in a model that describes correlated materials, where electrons join forces to produce unexpected phenomena such as superconductivity.

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Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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