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SUMMARY:CAS Eighteenth Annual Lecture--Searching for Unconventional Super
 conductors: A Quantum Map-Quest
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DESCRIPTION:Superconductivity is one of the most remarkable and potential
 ly useful phenomena ever discovered --- the ability of a material to car
 ry electrical current without any loss of energy by heating was an amazi
 ng and unexpected observation first made almost 100 years ago.?? The mys
 terious behavior of superconductors was finally explained 50 years ago b
 y researchers at the University of Illinois\, led by two-time Nobel Laur
 eate John Bardeen. ??  However\, in the last few decades several new cla
 sses of superconductors have been discovered that exhibit even more exot
 ic properties and even greater potential for technological impact.?? The
 se "unconventional superconductors" are once again challenging our under
 standing of condensed matter physics and the quantum world and may revol
 utionize our lives through energy transmission\, secure communication\, 
 medical imaging\, and quantum computing.  In this talk\, Professor Van H
 arlingen will describe the quest to characterize the extraordinary and p
 uzzling properties of the new superconductors and "zoom in" to the quant
 um world that holds the key to understanding and exploiting them.
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LOCATION:Knight Auditorium\, Spurlock Museum\, 600 South Gregory Street
CATEGORIES:Lecture
CONTACT:Liesel Wildhagen
ORGANIZER:wildhage@uiuc.edu
URL:http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/500?key=200001012000010192557
UID:92557@illinois.edu
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