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Organic metal challenges superconductor paradigm

Jul 1, 2001

According to the textbooks, superconductivity is destroyed in high magnetic fields. Even trace quantities of magnetic ions can lower the temperature at which a material loses its resistance to an electric current. So a few eyebrows were raised recently when a team of Japanese physicists found a material that becomes superconducting in a high magnetic field.

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