A Hundred Years of Superconductivity

Such models can help interpret such varied phenomena as atmospheric turbulence, human population dynamics, and superconductivity.

Superconductivity is a quantum state of matter, and it occurs only below a certain critical temperature.

Well, first there are strands of magnetic field left inside, but now the superconductor doesn't like them moving around, because their movements dissipate energy, which breaks the superconductivity state.

This spring marked the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity the ability of materials to carry electrical current with no loss. Currents set up in superconducting wires can exist for years without any measurable decay.

35. In the area of renewable energy, the United States Department of Energy had undertaken extensive research into the production of energy through wind, solar thermal sources and photovoltaic cells, as well as into lasers and high temperature superconductivity.

In the area of renewable energy, the United States Department of Energy had undertaken extensive research in the areas of the production of energy through wind, solar thermal sources, photovoltaic cells, as well as research in lasers, and high temperature superconductivity.

It took 46 years from the discovery of superconductivity to the 1957 Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer (BCS) theory of how the phenomenon occurs. Along the way, a number of famous physicists tried and failed to get the answer Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and Richard Feynman being notable examples.