You can't play checkers with charge ordering
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Mar 20, 2015 - CIFAR fellows were among physicists who observed the shape of a strange phenomenon that interferes with high-temperature superconductivity called charge ordering, discovering that it is stripy, not checkered, and settling a long-standing debate in the field. Charge ordering creates instability in some metals at temperatures warmer than about -100 degrees Celsius, causing some electrons to ... more

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