superconductivity
IPA: supɝkɑndʌktˈɪvʌti
noun
- (physics) The property of a material whereby it has no resistance to the flow of an electric current.
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Examples of "superconductivity" in Sentences
- See also the history of superconductivity.
- Langenberg is an expert in the area of superconductivity.
- It sounds like part of the BCS theory for superconductivity.
- The BCS theory of superconductivity has a fermion condensate.
- Another famous example is the BCS theory of superconductivity.
- The discovery of superconductivity should be in superconductivity.
- He is a leading scientist in the field of applied superconductivity.
- Its superconductivity was announced in the journal Nature in March 2001.
- The mid 1950s saw rapid progress in the understanding of superconductivity.
- The term superconductivity refers to the complete disappearance of the electrical resistance.
- In the 1960's, another development in superconductivity was initiated, by the Englishman Brian Josephson (who received the
- Onnes coined the term superconductivity and showed that tin and lead, too, become superconducting at very low temperatures.
- However, like in superconductivity (see below) pairs of spin-half particles can form "quasi-bosons" that can condense into a superfluid phase.
- The term superconductivity refers to the complete disappearance of the electrical resistance, which was later verified with an enormous accuracy.
- The demand that I see making the difference most from a usage point of view (barring some new breakthrough in superconductivity), concerns the anti-microbial uses of the product.
- Room-temperature superconductivity is "definitely at the back of people’s minds," notes David Snoke, a University of Pittsburgh physicist who also does research on novel Bose-Einstein condensates.
- The landmark finding by Riken Institute researchers involves the classical theory that superconductivity occurs when two electrons are bound together to form a pair, known as a Cooper pair, by lattice vibrations.
- The understanding of high temperature superconductivity, which is still not complete, has gained from concepts developed for helium-3, giving examples of the interactions that lead to pairing of particles in strongly interacting systems as well as for the symmetry of the wave function for such pairs.
- In all the years with IBM Research, I have especially appreciated the freedom to pursue the activities I found interesting, and greatly enjoyed the stimulus, collegial cooperation, frankness, and intellectual generosity of two scientific communities, namely, in superconductivity and critical phenomena.
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