In honour of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity Julien Bobroff and collaborators developed a really cool site meant for the general public. It contains many videos and discussions of basic science.
Two particular videos are of interest, one a general introduction to the subject and the other historical details about the original discovery.
I also really liked the video below.
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Superconductivity: a poster child for emergence
Superconductivity beautifully illustrates the characteristics of emergent properties. Novelty. Distinct properties of the superconducting s...
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Is it something to do with breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation? In molecular spectroscopy you occasionally hear this term thro... -
I welcome discussion on this point. I don't think it is as sensitive or as important a topic as the author order on papers. With rega...
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If you look on the arXiv and in Nature journals there is a continuing stream of people claiming to observe superconductivity in some new mat...
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