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Superconductors could be useful for trapping ultracold atoms in microstructures to make miniature atomic clocks.

Rich physics emerges from an asymptotically exact solution of the weak-coupling limit of the Hubbard model.

In the domain of unusual optical properties, layered superconductors could be viable materials with a negative index of refraction.

Highly doped graphene can become superconducting.

With a clever design of a ferromagnetic Josephson junction, it is possible to observe a theoretically predicted, but difficult to measure, spin-triplet supercurrent.

A new tool has been developed to measure the local London penetration depth in a superconductor.

A new phase of coexisting superconductivity and magnetic order is discovered in CeCoIn5.

Unconventional superconductors in the proximity of a topological insulator exhibit zero-energy Majorana surface states.

Ballistic electron transport through a clean superconductor with d-wave symmetry has features in common with graphene.

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy can take advantage of the high-quality surface of Fe1+δSe1-xTex to learn more about iron-based superconductivity.

Microwave-frequency excitation of a superconductor-metal-superconductor junction is used to resolve the dynamic mechanisms behind the temporal response.

Calculations suggest that the height of the pnictogen atom in iron-based pnictide superconductors determines the symmetry of the superconducting gap.

Following diamond and silicon, germanium is the third elemental semiconductor to host superconductivity at ambient pressure.

Density-functional calculations provide a comprehensive picture of how magnetic order evolves with doping in two iron pnictide compounds.

The addition of tellurium helps to grow large single crystals of an iron-based superconductor.

Small changes in stoichiometry can destroy superconductivity in FeSe.

Scientists find that stripe order in cuprates coexists with an unusual two-dimensional superconductivity.

After the discovery of superconductivity in doped sodium cobaltate, numerous measurements contributed to mapping out the various magnetic and electronic phases that occur in this material. Now, the report of a new phase diagram may challenge the previous version.

The ability to tune the onset of superconductivity in a single crystal with other means than chemical doping makes the interpretation of results much cleaner. Now, scientists demonstrate pressure-induced superconductivity in undoped crystals of the pnictide CaFe2As2.

The ability to grow single crystals of a compound in the family of iron-based superconductors will open the door to a wide range of experiments that were not previously possible.