For years, physicists have assumed that Cooper pairs, the electron duos that enable superconductors to conduct electricity without resistance, were two-trick ponies. The pairs either glide freely, creating a superconducting state, or create an insulating state by jamming up within a material, unable to move at all.
But in a new paper published in Science, a team of researchers has shown that Cooper pairs can also conduct electricity with some amount of resistance, like regular metals do. The findings describe an entirely new state of matter, the researchers say, that will require a new theoretical explanation.
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Research Reveals New State Of Matter: A Cooper Pair Metal
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @10:49AM
Making it into transistors.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 19 2019, @11:22PM
the words "New state of matter" always being thrown around just to overhype the discovery.
It's usually either a
Solid, Liquid, or gas (and there are some others), just because something that's in one of those states is discovered with a given property doesn't mean it's suddenly a new state of matter.
Solid = relatively constant shape and volume contant
Liquid = assume the shape of the container but relatively constant volume
Gas = assumes both shape and volume of container
Stop making up new states of matter just because something in one of these states has a given property. There are a million different solids with different properties, they're still solids. There are a million different liquids with different properties, they're still liquids. There are a million different gasses with different properties, they're still gases.