http://superconductors.org/Uses.htm
X APPLICATIONS
- MRI, magnetoencephalography, levitation, power lines, magnets, microwave relays and switches, gyroscopes,
motors,
2. BASIC
SCIENCE - systems of interacting
particles in a random potential (Wigner crystals, CDW, Colloids, Soft metals)
- extra knob : particle density z H.
Common
phenomenology:
ç Dynamic Phase transitions
ç Metastabillity
ç History effects, memory
ç Critical slow down, Jamming
ç Cyclic softening
çwithout
vortices -superconductivity limited
to narrow range of H , T
çwithout
pinning - superconductivity useless