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‘Beautiful Marriage’ of Quantum Enemies

Doctoral students Phillip Dang (left) and Reet Chaudhuri at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, where measurements were made on a material structure that concurrently has superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect.

Cornell University scientists have identified a new contender when it comes to quantum materials for computing and low-temperature electronics.

Using nitride-based materials, the researchers created a material structure that simultaneously exhibits superconductivity — in which electrical resistance vanishes completely — and the quantum Hall effect, which produces resistance with extreme precision when a magnetic field is applied.

“This is a beautiful marriage of the two things we know, at the microscale, that give electrons the most startling quantum proper...

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