Magnesium diboride (MgB2) becomes superconducting at 39 degrees Kelvin, one of the highest known transition temperatures (Tc) of any superconductor ... Schrieffer (BCS) theory to examine the ...

Scientists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have developed a powerful new tool for finding the next generation of ...

In an isolated atom, electrons occupy orbitals ... provide new principles for revising the BCS theory and for accelerating the discovery of superconductors that can operate at high temperatures.

Since their first discovery in 1911, superconductors — materials which ... in 1957 under the name of the Nobel Prize winning “BCS theory”. Named after its discoverers John Bardeen, Leon ...

What’s more, the theory behind why most superconductors work (“BCS theory,” an initialism of the last names of the physicists behind it) is strikingly simple and elegant. “It’s one of ...

Courtesy: J-G Cheng The classical theory of superconductivity (known as BCS theory after the initials of its discoverers ... could be used as the basis for designing other Mn-based superconductors.

But beginning in the late 1980s, a new class of “high-temperature” superconductors emerged that could not be explained using BCS theory. These materials have T c above the boiling point of liquid ...

Later, scientists classified mercury as a conventional superconductor, meaning its superconductivity could be explained by the concepts of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory. But while ...

To tackle this problem, researchers have now successfully designed superconductors one atom at a time ... which have so far only been predicted in theory. Researchers go to great lengths and ...

Princeton physicists have discovered an abrupt change in quantum behavior while experimenting with a three-atom ... The BKT theory is widely regarded as a successful description of how quantum ...