Moore Foundation grantee Louis Taillefer and colleagues at the Universite de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada are unlocking the secrets of high-temperature superconductors -- promising materials used in power transmission, telecommunications and maglev trains.
Earlier this year, Taillefer’s team reported a groundbreaking discovery: a fundamental transformation that operates at the very heart of copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors called a quantum critical point. The foundation grant will allow Taillefer to combine high magnetic fields, low temperature and ultrasensitive detection to extend the team's findings.
"Louis’ work is altering our understanding of basic quantum physics and the phenomenon of superconductivity. The grant also further strengthens the important links between CIFAR and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation," says Alan Bernstein, President and CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
A recent announcement from Sherbrooke quotes Dusan Pejakovic, Ph.D., a program officer in the foundation's Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems initiative:
"The EPiQS initiative promotes discovery of new electronic phenomena in materials by focusing significant funds on a relatively small number of outstanding scientists and research groups. Prof. Taillefer clearly belongs to this elite community, having performed a number of ground-breaking studies that have dramatically increased our understanding of high-temperature superconductivity. I anticipate that the new grant will enable Taillefer’s research team to get a big step closer to deciphering the mechanism of superconductivity in cuprate materials, which is the Holy Grail of condensed matter physics."
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