Findings identify signature that will help scientists
investigate and understand materials that carry current with no resistance
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE)
Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a series of clues that
particular arrangements of electrical charges known as "stripes" may
play a role in superconductivity—the ability of some materials to carry electric
current with no energy loss. But uncovering the detailed relationship between
these stripe patterns and the appearance or disappearance of superconductivity
is extremely difficult, particularly because the stripes that may accompany
superconductivity are very likely moving, or fluctuating.