Nickelate films have recently attracted broad attention due to the observation of superconductivity in the infinite layer phase of Nd0.8Sr0.2NiO2 (obtained by reducing Sr doped NdNiO3 films) and their similarity to the cuprates high temperature superconductors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe examine the discontinuous first-order superfluid ^{3}He A to B transition in the vicinity of the polycritical point (2.232 mK and 21.22 bar).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMagnetic monopoles are hypothetical elementary particles with quantized magnetic charge. In principle, a magnetic monopole can be detected by the quantized jump in magnetic flux that it generates upon passage through a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). Following the theoretical prediction that emergent magnetic monopoles should exist in several lanthanide pyrochlore magnetic insulators, including DyTiO, the SQUID technique has been proposed for their direct detection.
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In 2004, Kim and Chan (KC) reported a decrease in the period of torsional oscillators (TO) containing samples of solid (4)He, as the temperature was lowered below 0.2 K [Kim E, Chan MHW (2004) Science 305(5692):1941-1944]. These unexpected results constituted the first experimental evidence that the long-predicted supersolid state of solid (4)He may exist in nature.
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