Room-temperature superconductivity
The goal is a material that conducts electricity without resistance at room temperature and normal atmospheric pressure. Achieving both conditions together remains a research target.
Quantum matter
Superconductivity, charge order, fractional excitations, and slow quantum dynamics.
Subjects: Condensed matter · Quantum physics
Problems in this collection
11 problemsCuprate pairing mechanism
What microscopic interaction produces superconducting electron pairs across the cuprate phase diagram?
Hole-doped cuprate pseudogap
Why do hole-doped cuprates lose low-energy electronic states before superconductivity appears?
Strange metals
In some materials, electrical transport behaves in ways that the usual picture of independently moving electron-like excitations cannot explain. What replaces that picture?
Charge order in kagome superconductors
Why does charge order break symmetry differently across the AV3Sb5 kagome superconductor family?
Non-Abelian anyons in the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state
Do the excitations of the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state exhibit non-Abelian exchange statistics?
Kitaev spin liquid in α-RuCl3
Is the field-induced state of α-RuCl3 a Kitaev spin liquid with fractional excitations?
Many-body localization in two dimensions
Can an isolated two-dimensional disordered interacting system avoid thermalization indefinitely?
Sr₂RuO₄ pairing symmetry
Sr₂RuO₄ is a superconductor, but experiments still do not select one consistent symmetry for its paired-electron state.
Herbertsmithite ground state
Herbertsmithite is a leading candidate for a quantum spin liquid. Which low-temperature state is intrinsic to its kagome layers?
Bilayer nickelate pairing mechanism
Nickel-oxide bilayers superconduct under high pressure and in suitably prepared ambient-pressure films. What interaction binds the electron pairs, and can one quantitative account explain the measured gaps and material dependence?