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Science 26 July 2002:
Vol. 297. no. 5581, p. 499
DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5581.499
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SUPERCONDUCTIVITY:
Stripes Theory Beset by Quantum Waves

Adrian Cho

In a paper published online this week by Science, physicists show how the previously reported "stripes" in one type of superconducting material might be a subtle effect of overlapping quantum waves of electric charge. The new results do not rule out charge stripes in the material, abbreviated BSCCO, but they show that stripes are not needed to explain the undulations earlier researchers spotted on the surface of the material, physicists say.

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