Cracking the Mystery of Perfect Efficiency: Investigating Superconductors

Credit: Image is taken from the Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Workshop on Superconductivity, May 8-11, 2006

This figure shows how electrons pair up to cause superconductivity. Instead of traveling independently, the electrons couple into pairs that flow through metal without resistance.

« Cracking the Mystery of Perfect Efficiency: Investigating Superconductors

Credit: Image is taken from the Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Workshop on Superconductivity, May 8-11, 2006

In copper and iron-based superconductors, the spins on adjacent sites have north and south poles that alternate directions. Scientists think that the ordering of these magnetic poles may affect the electrons' interactions.

« Cracking the Mystery of Perfect Efficiency: Investigating Superconductors

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