Monday, February 14, 2011

Physicists isolate bound states in graphene-superconductor junctions

Physicists isolate bound states in graphene-superconductor junctions: Normal metals can adopt superconducting capacity because the paired electrons from the superconductor are translated to special electron-hole pairs in the normal metal, called Andreev bound states (ABS).
"If you have two superconductors with a normal metal between, you can actually transport the superconductivity across the normal material via these bound states, even though the normal material doesn't have the electron pairing that the superconductors do," Mason said.

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