> Scientists at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have discovered a behavior in materials called cuprates that suggests they carry current in a way entirely different from conventional metals such as copper.<p>> The research, published today in the journal <i>Science</i>, adds new meaning to the materials' moniker, "strange metals."<p>> Although scientists understand the physics of LTS, they haven't yet cracked the nut of HTS materials. Exactly how the electrons travel through these materials remains the biggest mystery in the field.<p>The biggest mystery in the field... of science?
For reasons of my own, I think this will turn out to be a pretty important clue as to the nature of super conductivity. Something I wonder is if resistivity would go down in response to a high electric field.
Excerpt:<p>"The fact that the linear-in-field resistivity mirrored so elegantly the previously known linear-in-temperature resistivity of LSCO is highly significant, Shekhter said.<p>"Usually when you see such things, that means that it's a very simple principle behind it," he said.
> discovered a behavior in materials called cuprates that suggests they carry current in a way entirely different from conventional metals such as copper.<p>Well, cuprates are copper-based molecules, so a better wording would be "they carry current in a way entirely different from metallic copper or other metals."