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    Scientists glimpse signs of a Puzzling State of Matter in a Superconductor

    April 26, 2021, Categories  Physics, Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    SLAC scientists used an improved X-ray technique to explore exotic states of matter in an unconventional superconductor that conducts electricity with 100% efficiency at relatively high temperatures. They glimpsed the signature of a state known as pair density waves (PDW), and confirmed that it intertwines with another phase known as charge density wave (CDW) stripes – wavelike patterns of higher and lower electron density in the material. CDWs, in turn, are created when spin density waves (SDWs) emerge and intertwine. (Jun-Sik Lee/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

    Known as ‘pair-density waves,’ it may be key to understanding how superconductivity can exist at relatively high temperatures...

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