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Fourth Industrial Revolution
Is this the secret to superconductivity?
Physicists have revealed details of a “quantum critical point” that is key to high-temperature superconductivity.
Natalie Wolchover is a staff writer at Quanta Magazine covering the physical sciences. Previously, she wrote for LiveScience, Popular Science, Seed, Make magazine and other publications. She has a bachelor’s in physics from Tufts University, studied graduate-level physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-authored several academic papers in nonlinear optics.
Physicists have revealed details of a “quantum critical point” that is key to high-temperature superconductivity.