3 months ago
Super Simulations for Superconducting
A study led by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to close in on the answer to a …
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1 year ago
Physicists Crack the Code to Signature Superconductor Kink Using Supercomputing
Scientists have long been trying to understand the behavior of superconductors, materials that have zero electrical resistance when they reach sufficiently low temperatures. Superconductors might be useful for technologies such …
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2 years ago
Closely Spaced Hydrogen Atoms Could Facilitate Superconductivity in Ambient Condition
By: Paul Boisvert, 502-229-4466, BoisvertPL@ornl.gov
An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material are much more tightly spaced than had been predicted for …
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6 years ago
Titan Shines Light on High-Temperature Superconductor Pathway
Simulation demonstrates how superconductivity arises in cuprates’ pseudogap phase.
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9 years ago
Superconductor Simulation Tops 15 Petaflops on Titan
Researchers simulating high-temperature superconductors has topped 15 petaflops on ORNL’s Titan supercomputer. More importantly, they did it with an algorithm that substantially overcomes two major roadblocks to realistic superconductor modeling.
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