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Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry - 14.07.2010
’Broken symmetry’ discovery in high-temperature superconductors
In a major step toward understanding high-temperature cuprate superconductors, a team of Cornell, Binghamton University and Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists have found a "broken symmetry," where electrons act like molecules in a liquid crystal: Electrons between copper and oxygen atoms arrange themselves differently "north-south" than "