The discovery of high-temperature superconductors has stimulated a remarkable growth in our understanding of the physics of magnetic vortices – tubes of flux that are created when a magnetic field ...

Researchers from Brown University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are the first to directly observe the melting of a vortex lattice in a superconductor. Their discovery ...

High-pressure systems over Alaska and Greenland, Samenow added, are "allowing the jet stream to dive south over the U.S. and also for this polar vortex to drop south with the jet stream." ...

Weather forecast: Deadly winter storm hits South, heads North 01:16 “What we’re seeing is that the jet stream and the polar vortex are becoming unstable – instability of historic proportions ...

Antarctica 'super vortex' is speeding up due to climate change - and it could melt thousands of square miles of sea ice, study reveals. Antarctic Circumpolar Current churns 6 billion cubic-feet of ...

Randomness can disorder a two-dimensional vortex lattice and lead to enhanced long-range correlations. The resulting order–disorder transition occurs in two steps, with critical exponents ...