
High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last
The Quanta Podcast
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A New Method to Measure Cooperative Rates in Nature
Physicists have developed tools to scrutinize coop rates on the atomic level. They modified an established technique called scanning tunneling microscopy, which drags a needle across the surface. By swapping the needle's normal metallic tip for a superconducting tip, they measured a current of electron pairs rather than individuals. This let them map the density of coop repairs surrounding each atom.
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