Gallery: Virtuoso Experiment Reveals the Quantum Secret to Superconductivity

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    Sample of yttrium barium copper oxide, one of a class of crystalline materials called cuprates which are the most potent known superconductors.
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    From left: Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud, Louis Taillefer and Sven Badoux, members of the experimental team at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada.
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    The scientists are continuing their experiments with an even more powerful magnet, hoping to learn more about the underlying phase from which superconductivity emerges in cuprates.
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    A bank of 600 capacitors powers the mega-magnet in Toulouse.
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    From left: Jérôme Béard, David Vignolles, Cyril Proust and Wojciech Tabis, members of the experimental team at the National Laboratory for Intense Magnetic Fields in Toulouse.
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