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Superconductors are used to make large electromagnets, and they are starting to play a major role in industry.
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By carefully changing the proportion of these elements, they discovered they could push the material from one quantum phase to another, including the sought after topological superconductor phase.
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"If the correlations are too strong, electrons get frozen in place. If they're too weak, the material loses its special topological properties. But at just the right level, you get a topological superconductor."
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The ultra thin films developed by Yang's group offer several advantages over other topological superconductor candidates.
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"A triplet superconductor is high on the wish list of many physicists working in the field of solid state physics," said Professor Jacob Linder.
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"It is still too early to conclude once and for all whether the material is a triplet superconductor. Among other things, the finding must be verified by other experimental groups. It is also necessary to carry out further triplet superconductivity tests," explained Linder.
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