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From Equations to Superconductors - Matter Under Pressure

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Explore how extreme pressure transforms matter and enables remarkable phenomena like high-temperature superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds through this 58-minute presidential lecture. Discover how first-principles theoretical methods can predict material properties directly from fundamental equations without relying on empirical rules, providing insights into transition temperatures, coherence lengths, magnetic penetration depths, critical fields, and currents. Learn how advanced theoretical approaches illuminate experimentally inaccessible regimes and guide the search for new superconductors under extreme conditions, demonstrating the power of computational physics to understand and predict the behavior of matter when pushed beyond normal limits.

Syllabus

Ryotaro Arita: From Equations to Superconductors: Matter Under Pressure (November 12, 2025)

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Simons Foundation

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