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A Major Superconductor 'Speed Limit' Was Just Broken

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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute broke a major superconductor speed limit by using ultra-fast laser pulses lasting 300 femtoseconds to outpace quantum vortices moving at tens of kilometers per second, allowing them to probe the depairing limit where Cooper pairs are ripped apart.

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