New evidence that magnetism is driving force behind superconductivity

Monday, December 13, 2010 - 13:33 in Physics & Chemistry

Physicists are offering up the strongest evidence yet that magnetism is the driving force behind unconventional superconductivity. Researchers can now describe how collective fluctuations of electrons at the border of magnetism provided more than enough energy to drive superconductivity in recent heavy-fermion experiments.

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