An 0.5-mile-long stretch 30 feet underground below Interstate 280 in Menlo Park, California, is now colder than most places in the universe: -456 F. It houses a new particle accelerator that is part of a $1bn upgrade of SLAC’s X-ray laser LCLS. The new machine, LCLS-II, will be able to produce up to a million X-ray flashes per second – a world record for today’s most powerful X-ray light sources.
(Jim Gensheimer and Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
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The Hubbard model, used to understand electron behavior in numerous quantum materials, now shows us its stripes, and superconductivity too, in simulations for cuprate superconductors.
SIMES researcher Danfeng Li explains the delicate ‘Jenga chemistry’ behind making a new nickel oxide material, the first in a potential new family of unconventional superconductors.
Revealed for the first time by a new X-ray laser technique, their surprisingly unruly response has profound implications for designing and controlling materials.
A team including SLAC researchers has measured the intricate interactions between atomic nuclei and electrons that are key to understanding intriguing materials properties, such as high-temperature superconductivity.