Abbamonte Team at SLAC (IMAGE)

University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering

Abbamonte Team at SLAC

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Professor Peter Abbamonte (middle, in navy sweater) and postdoctoral researcher Matteo Mitrano (right, in white dress shirt) pose with their team at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California. The experimental team used a new investigative technique called time-resolved resonant soft x-ray scattering, to probe the striped charge order phase in a well-studied cuprate superconductor, with an unprecedented energy resolution, finding that superconductivity in cuprates may be mediated by charge-order fluctuations. This is the first time such an experiment has been done at an energy scale relevant to superconductivity.

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