The Problem of a Lifetime

2021 ◽  
pp. 316-342
Author(s):  
Andrew Zangwill
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Cuprate Superconductors ◽  
Valence Bond ◽  
Mott Insulator ◽  
American Physical Society ◽  
Bcs Theory ◽  
Limited Success ◽  
Doped Mott Insulator ◽  
American Physical

Anderson is the only theorist who answers questions at a news conference at the 1987 March Meeting of the American Physical Society (the “Woodstock of Physics”) where most physicists learned details about the newly discovered high-temperature cuprate superconductors, which lose all resistance at temperatures not very far below room temperature. He had just proposed a radical non-BCS theory which attributed superconductivity in these materials to a “resonating valence bond” description of a doped Mott insulator using a model first proposed by John Hubbard. He spent the next twenty years trying to convince his colleagues of the correctness of this theory, with only limited success.

Why We Don't Have a Room-Temperature Superconductor—Yet: 1991 MRS Fall Von Hippel Award Address

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 70-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.H. Geballe
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
American Chemical Society ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Research Society ◽  
American Physical Society ◽  
Materials Research ◽  
Disposable Diapers ◽  
American Physical

I would like to raise a question of interest to many of us here today: “Why have we not been able to find a room-temperature superconductor?” I have a scenario for why not that can be illustrated by projecting ahead 98 years. It is 2089, the tercentenary of the French Revolution. The revolt against science that started building up in the last decade of the 20th century has reached a crescendo and a revolutionary tribunal has erected a huge guillotine. Following in the tradition of Lavoisier's trial and execution, the presidents of the Materials Research Society, the American Chemical Society, and the American Physical Society have been found to be enemies of the people and have been sentenced to be guillotined. The president of the Materials Research Society steps up. In his final words, he says: “I have no regrets. We've supplied you with the pole vaults which have made possible a new world's record above 30 feet, we've given you automobile bumpers that prevent damage in crashes at 60 miles per hour, and we've given you tennis rackets that are big enough to allow you to cover from center court to the alley without having to take a step.” With that, he bravely puts his head on the block. Down crashes the knife but inexplicably it stops just before it reaches his neck. According to the rules he steps down a free man. Then the American Chemical Society president steps up and says: “I don't have any regrets either. We have given you body centered cubic diamond that makes it possible to build indestructible houses, we have given you disposable diapers that are biodegradable in 30 seconds, and we've reseeded the stratosphere with ozone. We have done our job.” She courageously puts her head on the block, and the guillotine comes down. Again it stops short and she walks away, a free woman. Then the president of the American Physical Society says: “I don't have any regrets either. We've circled the equator with our newest SSC and have given you the Higgs boson, we've given you light that you can squeeze until it hurts, and we've discovered over 100 theoretical models which should lead to room-temperature superconductors. We haven't given you any real ones because there aren't any—we've tested all the possibilities. But, by the way, while we've been standing here, I've done a back-of-the-envelope calculation and I've found out wha's wrong with this guillotine. If you give me a screwdriver I can fix it.”

scholarly journals The analytical description of a doped Mott insulator

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (29) ◽  
pp. 1950355
Author(s):  
Yu-Liang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Green’S Function ◽  
Coulomb Interaction ◽  
Green's Function ◽  
Doping Concentration ◽  
Cuprate Superconductors ◽  
Mott Insulator ◽  
Spin Fluctuations ◽  
Hole Doping ◽  
Charge Fluctuation ◽  
Doped Mott Insulator

With the hierarchical Green’s function approach, we study a doped Mott insulator described with the Hubbard model by analytically solving the equations of motion of an one-particle Green’s function and related multiple-point correlation functions, and find that the separation of the spin and charge degrees of freedom of the electrons is an intrinsic character of the doped Mott insulator. For enough of large on-site repulsive Coulomb interaction, we show that the spectral weight of the one-particle Green’s function is proportional to the hole doping concentration that is mainly produced by the charge fluctuation of electrons, while the excitation spectrum of the electrons is composed of two parts: One is contributed by the spin fluctuation of the electrons, which is proportional to the hole doping concentration, and another one is coming from the coupling between the charge and spin fluctuations of the electrons that takes the maximum at undoping. All of these low energy/temperature physical properties originate from the strong on-site Coulomb interaction. The present results are consistent with the spectroscopy observations of the cuprate superconductors and the numerical calculations in normal state above the pseudogap regime.

scholarly journals Unusual symmetries of the order parameter in cuprates

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 207-212
Author(s):  
Tran Van Luong ◽  
Nguyen Thi Ngoc Nu
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Order Parameter ◽  
Cuprate Superconductors ◽  
High Temperature Superconductivity ◽  
Spin Fluctuation ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
Coulomb Repulsion ◽  
Bcs Theory ◽  
S Wave ◽  
Wave Symmetry

The BCS superconducting theory, introduced by J. Bardeen, L. Cooper and R. Schriffer in 1957, succeeded in describing and satis-factorily explaining the nature of superconductivity for low-temperature superconductors. However, the BCS theory cannot explain the properties of high-temperature superconductors, discovered by J. G. Bednorz and K. A. Müller in 1986. Although scientists have found a lot of new superconductors and their transition temperatures are constantly increasing, most high-temperature superconductors are found by experiment and so far no theory can fully explain their properties. Many previous studies have suggested that the order parameter in high-temperature copper-based superconductors (cuprate superconductors - cuprates) is in the form of d-wave symmetry, but recent results show that the order parameter has an extended s-wave symmetry (extended s wave). Studying the symmetric forms of order parameters in cuprate can contribute to understanding the nature of high-temperature superconductivity. In this article, the authors present an overview of the development of high-temperature supercon-ductors over the past 30 years and explains unusual symmetries of the order parameter in copper-based superconductors. The com-petition of three coupling mechanisms of electrons in cuprates (the mechanism of coupling through coulomb repulsion, electron-phonon mechanism and spin-fluctuation mechanism) affects the unusual symmetry of the order parameter. The solution of the self-consistency equation in simple cases has been found and the ability to move the phase within the superconducting state has been shown.

High Temperature Superconductors, Physics Funding, Materials Physics Highlighted at American Physical Society Meeting

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 41-42
Author(s):  
E.N. Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Condensed Matter ◽  
High Temperature Superconductors ◽  
American Physical Society ◽  
Condensed Matter Physics ◽  
Society Meeting ◽  
Meeting Program ◽  
American Physical ◽  
The Way

The March meeting of the American Physical Society was held in New Orleans, March 21-25, 1988. The primary forum for APS's Division of Condensed Matter Physics, the meeting occupied the entire five days with sessions begining at 8:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 2:30 p.m. Special sessions ran during dinner hours and some technical topics required evening sessions as well. According to the meeting program (an 8.5 × 11 inch book not quite 1.5 inches thick), 340 invited and 3,420 contributed abstracts were scheduled into 392 sessions. A gargantuan event to say the least. Meeting rooms were full to over-flowing for many sessions with the hottest, most pervasive topic of the week being high temperature superconductors.Formed just three years ago, the Materials Physics Topical Group (MPTG) of the American Physical Society is thriving. At the meeting, the MPTG fielded 15 topically focused symposia comprising about 50 sessions ranging from quasicrystals to high temperature superconductors. Both invited and contributed sessions were included (the latter often featuring an invited lead-off talk). The sessions were developed through the efforts of symposium organizers in a manner not dissimilar to the way MRS symposia are run. Although there is overlap between MPTG programs and some areas treated by the APS's Condensed Matter Physics Division (CMP), this style of symposium organization is unique to MPTG.

ABOUT HEAT CAPACITY OF TITANIUM CARBIDE TiCx

2019 ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
I. Khidirov ◽  
V. V. Getmanskiy ◽  
A. S. Parpiev ◽  
Sh. A. Makhmudov
Keyword(s):  
Heat Capacity ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Titanium Carbide ◽  
Temperature Dependence ◽  
Carbon Concentration ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Thermodynamic Characteristics ◽  
Liquid Nitrogen Temperature ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Thermal Excitation

This work relates to the field of thermophysical parameters of refractory interstitial alloys. The isochoric heat capacity of cubic titanium carbide TiCx has been calculated within the Debye approximation in the carbon concentration  range x = 0.70–0.97 at room temperature (300 K) and at liquid nitrogen temperature (80 K) through the Debye temperature established on the basis of neutron diffraction analysis data. It has been found out that at room temperature with decrease of carbon concentration the heat capacity significantly increases from 29.40 J/mol·K to 34.20 J/mol·K, and at T = 80 K – from 3.08 J/mol·K to 8.20 J/mol·K. The work analyzes the literature data and gives the results of the evaluation of the high-temperature dependence of the heat capacity СV of the cubic titanium carbide TiC0.97 based on the data of neutron structural analysis. It has been proposed to amend in the Neumann–Kopp formula to describe the high-temperature dependence of the titanium carbide heat capacity. After the amendment, the Neumann–Kopp formula describes the results of well-known experiments on the high-temperature dependence of the heat capacity of the titanium carbide TiCx. The proposed formula takes into account the degree of thermal excitation (a quantized number) that increases in steps with increasing temperature.The results allow us to predict the thermodynamic characteristics of titanium carbide in the temperature range of 300–3000 K and can be useful for materials scientists.

Nanocomposite Polyurethane Foams Via POSS Blends

2002 ◽  
Vol 733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brock McCabe ◽  
Steven Nutt ◽  
Brent Viers ◽  
Tim Haddad
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Sample Preparation ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Focused Ion Beam ◽  
Ion Beam ◽  
Polyurethane Foams ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Polymer Systems ◽  
Polyurethane Resin ◽  
Military Development

AbstractPolyhedral Oligomeric Silsequioxane molecules have been incorporated into a commercial polyurethane formulation to produce nanocomposite polyurethane foam. This tiny POSS silica molecule has been used successfully to enhance the performance of polymer systems using co-polymerization and blend strategies. In our investigation, we chose a high-temperature MDI Polyurethane resin foam currently used in military development projects. For the nanofiller, or “blend”, Cp7T7(OH)3 POSS was chosen. Structural characterization was accomplished by TEM and SEM to determine POSS dispersion and cell morphology, respectively. Thermal behavior was investigated by TGA. Two methods of TEM sample preparation were employed, Focused Ion Beam and Ultramicrotomy (room temperature).

FANSTEEL 85 METAL

Alloy Digest ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
Creep Strength ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Base Alloy ◽  
Heat Treating ◽  
Good Combination ◽  
Bend Strength ◽  
Temperature Performance

Abstract FANSTEEL 85 METAL is a columbium-base alloy characterized by good fabricability at room temperature, good weldability and a good combination of creep strength and oxidation resistance at elevated temperatures. Its applications include missile and rocket components and many other high-temperature parts. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, microstructure, hardness, elasticity, tensile properties, and bend strength as well as creep. It also includes information on low and high temperature performance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, joining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: Cb-7. Producer or source: Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation. Originally published December 1963, revised June 1981.

MAGNESIUM AZ31B

Alloy Digest ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Magnesium Alloy ◽  
Physical Properties ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Heat Treating ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Bearing Strength ◽  
Temperature Performance ◽  
Wrought Magnesium Alloy ◽  
Metal Products

Abstract Magnesium AZ31B is a general purpose wrought magnesium alloy for room temperature service. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, tensile properties, and compressive, shear, and bearing strength as well as creep. It also includes information on low and high temperature performance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, and joining. Filing Code: Mg-53. Producer or source: The Dow Metal Products Company.

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