Stanene and articles today
Post date: Jan 15, 2014 2:15:2 PM
The article is not new, but apparently a new material has been theorized by the group of Zhang in September (PRL article).
If this material turns out to be as described, computer-on-laps lover will be happy to hear this.
Basically the material would be a superconductor. They it works (as I understood it), is that inside Stanene is a topological insulator, leaving conducting
"highways" on the edges of the material. They it works: the highways are one dimensional, thus the probability of scattering back is zero, which implies no resistance.
The material would be superconductor at room temperature, and if drugged, up to 100 Celsisu. Even if turns out to be wrong, it is still an interesting news (new physics would be taken place).
Supernice.
Interesting articles:
Non-compact horizons in GR:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.3107.pdf
Which is related to a line of research taken during my PhD, and which Cosimo and Leonardo follow:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0232
http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4337
http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2768
I read with interest this Kuramoto solvable toy model:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.3109.pdf
This one on Open Quantum Walks (with Petruccione)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.3305.pdf
and this by Hartle, following his and Gellmann line of research.