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Black Holes: A Model for Superconductors?
March 3, 2011
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Black holes are some of the heaviest objects in the universe. Electrons are some of the lightest. Now, physicists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have shown how charged black holes can be used to model the behavior of interacting electrons in unconventional superconductors.
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University of Illinois College of Engineering
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