How do high-temperature superconductors work? A team out of California Institute of Technology hypothesises that under the conditions in which the phenomenon has been observed, Copper atoms act like tiny magnets, and when an Oxygen atom carrying a positively charged particle – a hole – arrives, the magnets align themselves enabling another similar Oxygen atom […]
How do high-temperature superconductors work? A team out of California Institute of Technology hypothesises that under the conditions in which the phenomenon has been observed, Copper atoms act like tiny magnets, and when an Oxygen atom carrying a positively charged particle – a hole – arrives, the magnets align themselves enabling another similar Oxygen atom through: if the theory is good, it will mean that the phenomenon will not be observed above minus 48 C – but that it might work at room temperature if Sulphur atoms replace the Oxygen atoms.
