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70-469: [REDACTED] Look up cmp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. CMP may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Cancionero Musical de Palacio , a Spanish manuscript of Renaissance music Chipmunk Punk , a 1990 album by The Chipmunks CM Punk (born 1978), American wrestler Computing [ edit ] cmp (Unix) ,

140-575: A Hubbard model with pre-specified parameters, and to study phase transitions for antiferromagnetic and spin liquid ordering. In 1995, a gas of rubidium atoms cooled down to a temperature of 170 nK was used to experimentally realize the Bose–Einstein condensate , a novel state of matter originally predicted by S. N. Bose and Albert Einstein , wherein a large number of atoms occupy one quantum state . Research in condensed matter physics has given rise to several device applications, such as

210-424: A certain value. The phenomenon completely surprised the best theoretical physicists of the time, and it remained unexplained for several decades. Albert Einstein , in 1922, said regarding contemporary theories of superconductivity that "with our far-reaching ignorance of the quantum mechanics of composite systems we are very far from being able to compose a theory out of these vague ideas." Drude's classical model

280-565: A field of study was coined by him and Volker Heine , when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories , Cambridge , from Solid state theory to Theory of Condensed Matter in 1967, as they felt it better included their interest in liquids, nuclear matter , and so on. Although Anderson and Heine helped popularize the name "condensed matter", it had been used in Europe for some years, most prominently in

350-755: A file-comparison utility Certificate Management Protocol , an Internet protocol Chip multiprocessor , a CPU die type Cloud management platform Consent management provider, for HTTP cookies Government, law and politics [ edit ] Center for Medical Progress , United States Citizens' Municipal Party , Australia (1935–1976) Closed material procedures , in UK law courts Comparative Manifestos Project , in political science Congestion management program , California, US Chattogram Metropolitan Police , Bangladesh Republican Nation Party ( Cumhuriyetçi Millet Partisi ), Turkey (1954-1958) Medicine [ edit ] Cardiomyopathy ,

420-625: A forerunner of the Royal Military Police Science and technology [ edit ] See also: § Transport Camshaft position sensor, an engine sensor that can be used in used in combination with a crankshaft position sensor Center for Machine Perception, a research group at Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic Chemical-mechanical polishing , a technique used in semiconductor fabrication; also known as planarization Command Module Pilot ,

490-463: A heart muscle disease Chondromalacia patellae , a degenerative condition of the knee cap Chronic myofascial pain , associated with hypersensitive muscular trigger points Common myeloid progenitor (CFU-GEMM), a progenitor cell Comprehensive metabolic panel , a group of 14 blood tests often used in medical diagnosis Cytidine monophosphate , a DNA nucleotide Military and firearms [ edit ] Canadian Military Pattern truck ,

560-552: A material. The choice of scattering probe depends on the observation energy scale of interest. Visible light has energy on the scale of 1 electron volt (eV) and is used as a scattering probe to measure variations in material properties such as the dielectric constant and refractive index . X-rays have energies of the order of 10 keV and hence are able to probe atomic length scales, and are used to measure variations in electron charge density and crystal structure. Neutrons can also probe atomic length scales and are used to study

630-451: A matter of fact, it would be more correct to unify them under the title of 'condensed bodies ' ". One of the first studies of condensed states of matter was by English chemist Humphry Davy , in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Davy observed that of the forty chemical elements known at the time, twenty-six had metallic properties such as lustre , ductility and high electrical and thermal conductivity. This indicated that

700-571: A metal as an ideal gas of then-newly discovered electrons . He was able to derive the empirical Wiedemann-Franz law and get results in close agreement with the experiments. This classical model was then improved by Arnold Sommerfeld who incorporated the Fermi–Dirac statistics of electrons and was able to explain the anomalous behavior of the specific heat of metals in the Wiedemann–Franz law . In 1912, The structure of crystalline solids

770-473: A periodic lattice of spins that collectively acquired magnetization. The Ising model was solved exactly to show that spontaneous magnetization can occur in one dimension and it is possible in higher-dimensional lattices. Further research such as by Bloch on spin waves and Néel on antiferromagnetism led to developing new magnetic materials with applications to magnetic storage devices. The Sommerfeld model and spin models for ferromagnetism illustrated

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840-668: A pickup truck (made 1991–2021) Common Modular Platform , a 2018 Franco-Chinese car design Other uses [ edit ] Central Maine Power , an American utility Certified Meeting Professional , a certification for event planners Company of Mission Priests , an Anglican monastic order See also [ edit ] Comp (disambiguation) Conflict Management and Peace Science (CMPS), an academic journal CPM (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Search for "cmp" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles containing CMP or CMPs All pages with titles beginning with CMP Topics referred to by

910-453: A position of the Apollo program crewed missions Condensed matter physics , a branch of physics Conjugated microporous polymer , a type of porous material Cytidine monophosphate Transport [ edit ] Copa Airlines , Panama (ICAO: CMP; founded 1944) Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris , a Paris Métro operator (1898–1948) Chevrolet CMP (or Labo),

980-413: A range of phenomena related to high temperature superconductivity are understood poorly, although the microscopic physics of individual electrons and lattices is well known. Similarly, models of condensed matter systems have been studied where collective excitations behave like photons and electrons , thereby describing electromagnetism as an emergent phenomenon. Emergent properties can also occur at

1050-528: A rational multiple of the constant e 2 / h {\displaystyle e^{2}/h} . Laughlin, in 1983, realized that this was a consequence of quasiparticle interaction in the Hall states and formulated a variational method solution, named the Laughlin wavefunction . The study of topological properties of the fractional Hall effect remains an active field of research. Decades later,

1120-474: A truck design in World War II Chief of Military Personnel , the senior Canadian Armed Forces officer responsible for the military's human resource programs Civilian Marksmanship Program , a U.S. government program that promotes firearms safety training and rifle practice Compact machine pistol , a class of firearm that encompasses small fully automatic firearms Corps of Military Police,

1190-399: Is an established Kondo insulator , i.e. a strongly correlated electron material, it is expected that the existence of a topological Dirac surface state in this material would lead to a topological insulator with strong electronic correlations. Theoretical condensed matter physics involves the use of theoretical models to understand properties of states of matter. These include models to study

1260-411: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cancionero Musical de Palacio The Cancionero de Palacio (Madrid, Biblioteca Real, MS II–1335), or Cancionero Musical de Palacio (CMP), also known as Cancionero de Barbieri , is a Spanish manuscript of Renaissance music . The works in it were compiled during a time span of around 40 years, from

1330-752: Is especially ideal for the study of phase changes at extreme temperatures above 2000 °C due to the temperature independence of the method. Ultracold atom trapping in optical lattices is an experimental tool commonly used in condensed matter physics, and in atomic, molecular, and optical physics . The method involves using optical lasers to form an interference pattern , which acts as a lattice , in which ions or atoms can be placed at very low temperatures. Cold atoms in optical lattices are used as quantum simulators , that is, they act as controllable systems that can model behavior of more complicated systems, such as frustrated magnets . In particular, they are used to engineer one-, two- and three-dimensional lattices for

1400-458: Is modified to a hydrogen bonded, mobile arrangement of water molecules. In quantum phase transitions , the temperature is set to absolute zero , and the non-thermal control parameter, such as pressure or magnetic field, causes the phase transitions when order is destroyed by quantum fluctuations originating from the Heisenberg uncertainty principle . Here, the different quantum phases of

1470-523: Is the villancico , though other genres are also found as the romance and the canción . The majority of the works are for one voice with instrumental accompaniment but polyphonic works are also available for 2, 3 or 4 voices. Below is a list of the composers present in the manuscript, with the number of works in parentheses: Three different indexing systems are used in the table below: Condensed matter physics The diversity of systems and phenomena available for study makes condensed matter physics

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1540-508: The Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research , physics professor Manuel Cardona, it was Albert Einstein who created the modern field of condensed matter physics starting with his seminal 1905 article on the photoelectric effect and photoluminescence which opened the fields of photoelectron spectroscopy and photoluminescence spectroscopy , and later his 1907 article on the specific heat of solids which introduced, for

1610-482: The Springer-Verlag journal Physics of Condensed Matter , launched in 1963. The name "condensed matter physics" emphasized the commonality of scientific problems encountered by physicists working on solids, liquids, plasmas, and other complex matter, whereas "solid state physics" was often associated with restricted industrial applications of metals and semiconductors. In the 1960s and 70s, some physicists felt

1680-451: The molecular car , molecular windmill and many more. In quantum computation , information is represented by quantum bits, or qubits . The qubits may decohere quickly before useful computation is completed. This serious problem must be solved before quantum computing may be realized. To solve this problem, several promising approaches are proposed in condensed matter physics, including Josephson junction qubits, spintronic qubits using

1750-452: The phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the condition where a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures. By 1908, James Dewar and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes were successfully able to liquefy hydrogen and

1820-518: The quantum Hall effect which was discovered half a century later. Magnetism as a property of matter has been known in China since 4000 BC. However, the first modern studies of magnetism only started with the development of electrodynamics by Faraday, Maxwell and others in the nineteenth century, which included classifying materials as ferromagnetic , paramagnetic and diamagnetic based on their response to magnetization. Pierre Curie studied

1890-407: The 1940s, when they were grouped together as solid-state physics . Around the 1960s, the study of physical properties of liquids was added to this list, forming the basis for the more comprehensive specialty of condensed matter physics. The Bell Telephone Laboratories was one of the first institutes to conduct a research program in condensed matter physics. According to the founding director of

1960-407: The 1970s for band structure calculations of variety of solids. Some states of matter exhibit symmetry breaking , where the relevant laws of physics possess some form of symmetry that is broken. A common example is crystalline solids , which break continuous translational symmetry . Other examples include magnetized ferromagnets , which break rotational symmetry , and more exotic states such as

2030-617: The Thomas–Fermi model. The Hartree–Fock method accounted for exchange statistics of single particle electron wavefunctions. In general, it is very difficult to solve the Hartree–Fock equation. Only the free electron gas case can be solved exactly. Finally in 1964–65, Walter Kohn , Pierre Hohenberg and Lu Jeu Sham proposed the density functional theory (DFT) which gave realistic descriptions for bulk and surface properties of metals. The density functional theory has been widely used since

2100-480: The aforementioned topological band theory advanced by David J. Thouless and collaborators was further expanded leading to the discovery of topological insulators . In 1986, Karl Müller and Johannes Bednorz discovered the first high temperature superconductor , La 2-x Ba x CuO 4 , which is superconducting at temperatures as high as 39 kelvin . It was realized that the high temperature superconductors are examples of strongly correlated materials where

2170-665: The atoms in John Dalton 's atomic theory were not indivisible as Dalton claimed, but had inner structure. Davy further claimed that elements that were then believed to be gases, such as nitrogen and hydrogen could be liquefied under the right conditions and would then behave as metals. In 1823, Michael Faraday , then an assistant in Davy's lab, successfully liquefied chlorine and went on to liquefy all known gaseous elements, except for nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen . Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied

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2240-681: The bulk of which are in Castilian , although a few works also appear in Latin , French, Catalan and Galician–Portuguese . It constitutes an anthology of the polyphonic music performed during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs. The themes found in the songs are the most varied: romantic, religious, festive, chivalrous, satirical, pastoral, burlesque, political, historical, etc. accompanied by music of all styles: from popular folk songs to elaborate compositions. The musical form most important

2310-413: The change of phase of a system, which is brought about by change in an external parameter such as temperature , pressure , or molar composition . In a single-component system, a classical phase transition occurs at a temperature (at a specific pressure) where there is an abrupt change in the order of the system For example, when ice melts and becomes water, the ordered hexagonal crystal structure of ice

2380-458: The critical behavior of observables, termed critical phenomena , was a major field of interest in the 1960s. Leo Kadanoff , Benjamin Widom and Michael Fisher developed the ideas of critical exponents and widom scaling . These ideas were unified by Kenneth G. Wilson in 1972, under the formalism of the renormalization group in the context of quantum field theory. The quantum Hall effect

2450-536: The critical point, a better theory is needed. Near the critical point, the fluctuations happen over broad range of size scales while the feature of the whole system is scale invariant. Renormalization group methods successively average out the shortest wavelength fluctuations in stages while retaining their effects into the next stage. Thus, the changes of a physical system as viewed at different size scales can be investigated systematically. The methods, together with powerful computer simulation, contribute greatly to

2520-466: The current. This phenomenon, arising due to the nature of charge carriers in the conductor, came to be termed the Hall effect , but it was not properly explained at the time because the electron was not experimentally discovered until 18 years later. After the advent of quantum mechanics, Lev Landau in 1930 developed the theory of Landau quantization and laid the foundation for a theoretical explanation of

2590-523: The dependence of magnetization on temperature and discovered the Curie point phase transition in ferromagnetic materials. In 1906, Pierre Weiss introduced the concept of magnetic domains to explain the main properties of ferromagnets. The first attempt at a microscopic description of magnetism was by Wilhelm Lenz and Ernst Ising through the Ising model that described magnetic materials as consisting of

2660-570: The development of the semiconductor transistor , laser technology, magnetic storage , liquid crystals , optical fibres and several phenomena studied in the context of nanotechnology . Methods such as scanning-tunneling microscopy can be used to control processes at the nanometer scale, and have given rise to the study of nanofabrication. Such molecular machines were developed for example by Nobel laureates in chemistry Ben Feringa , Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Fraser Stoddart . Feringa and his team developed multiple molecular machines such as

2730-507: The electronic properties of solids, such as the Drude model , the band structure and the density functional theory . Theoretical models have also been developed to study the physics of phase transitions , such as the Ginzburg–Landau theory , critical exponents and the use of mathematical methods of quantum field theory and the renormalization group . Modern theoretical studies involve

2800-458: The electron–electron interactions play an important role. A satisfactory theoretical description of high-temperature superconductors is still not known and the field of strongly correlated materials continues to be an active research topic. In 2012, several groups released preprints which suggest that samarium hexaboride has the properties of a topological insulator in accord with the earlier theoretical predictions. Since samarium hexaboride

2870-765: The explanation of the critical phenomena associated with continuous phase transition. Experimental condensed matter physics involves the use of experimental probes to try to discover new properties of materials. Such probes include effects of electric and magnetic fields , measuring response functions , transport properties and thermometry . Commonly used experimental methods include spectroscopy , with probes such as X-rays , infrared light and inelastic neutron scattering ; study of thermal response, such as specific heat and measuring transport via thermal and heat conduction . Several condensed matter experiments involve scattering of an experimental probe, such as X-ray , optical photons , neutrons , etc., on constituents of

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2940-477: The first time, the effect of lattice vibrations on the thermodynamic properties of crystals, in particular the specific heat . Deputy Director of the Yale Quantum Institute A. Douglas Stone makes a similar priority case for Einstein in his work on the synthetic history of quantum mechanics . According to physicist Philip Warren Anderson , the use of the term "condensed matter" to designate

3010-494: The ground state of a BCS superconductor , that breaks U(1) phase rotational symmetry. Goldstone's theorem in quantum field theory states that in a system with broken continuous symmetry, there may exist excitations with arbitrarily low energy, called the Goldstone bosons . For example, in crystalline solids, these correspond to phonons , which are quantized versions of lattice vibrations. Phase transition refers to

3080-469: The important notion of a quasiparticle. Soviet physicist Lev Landau used the idea for the Fermi liquid theory wherein low energy properties of interacting fermion systems were given in terms of what are now termed Landau-quasiparticles. Landau also developed a mean-field theory for continuous phase transitions, which described ordered phases as spontaneous breakdown of symmetry . The theory also introduced

3150-461: The interface between materials: one example is the lanthanum aluminate-strontium titanate interface , where two band-insulators are joined to create conductivity and superconductivity . The metallic state has historically been an important building block for studying properties of solids. The first theoretical description of metals was given by Paul Drude in 1900 with the Drude model , which explained electrical and thermal properties by describing

3220-438: The latter, the two phases involved do not co-exist at the transition temperature, also called the critical point . Near the critical point, systems undergo critical behavior, wherein several of their properties such as correlation length , specific heat , and magnetic susceptibility diverge exponentially. These critical phenomena present serious challenges to physicists because normal macroscopic laws are no longer valid in

3290-462: The many-body wavefunction is often computationally hard, and hence, approximation methods are needed to obtain meaningful predictions. The Thomas–Fermi theory , developed in the 1920s, was used to estimate system energy and electronic density by treating the local electron density as a variational parameter . Later in the 1930s, Douglas Hartree , Vladimir Fock and John Slater developed the so-called Hartree–Fock wavefunction as an improvement over

3360-493: The mid-1470s until the beginning of the 16th century, approximately coinciding with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs . The first ten folios are not numbered; the remaining folios are numbered from 1 to 304. Based on the index of works included in the beginning of the manuscript, it originally had 548 works. Many folios have been lost, reducing the number of works currently in the manuscript to 458. The manuscript

3430-416: The more comprehensive name better fit the funding environment and Cold War politics of the time. References to "condensed" states can be traced to earlier sources. For example, in the introduction to his 1947 book Kinetic Theory of Liquids , Yakov Frenkel proposed that "The kinetic theory of liquids must accordingly be developed as a generalization and extension of the kinetic theory of solid bodies. As

3500-1052: The most active field of contemporary physics: one third of all American physicists self-identify as condensed matter physicists, and the Division of Condensed Matter Physics is the largest division of the American Physical Society . These include solid state and soft matter physicists, who study quantum and non-quantum physical properties of matter respectively. Both types study a great range of materials, providing many research, funding and employment opportunities. The field overlaps with chemistry , materials science , engineering and nanotechnology , and relates closely to atomic physics and biophysics . The theoretical physics of condensed matter shares important concepts and methods with that of particle physics and nuclear physics . A variety of topics in physics such as crystallography , metallurgy , elasticity , magnetism , etc., were treated as distinct areas until

3570-406: The motion of an electron in a periodic lattice. The mathematics of crystal structures developed by Auguste Bravais , Yevgraf Fyodorov and others was used to classify crystals by their symmetry group , and tables of crystal structures were the basis for the series International Tables of Crystallography , first published in 1935. Band structure calculations were first used in 1930 to predict

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3640-433: The notion of an order parameter to distinguish between ordered phases. Eventually in 1956, John Bardeen , Leon Cooper and Robert Schrieffer developed the so-called BCS theory of superconductivity, based on the discovery that arbitrarily small attraction between two electrons of opposite spin mediated by phonons in the lattice can give rise to a bound state called a Cooper pair . The study of phase transitions and

3710-575: The probe of these hyperfine interactions ), which couple the electron or nuclear spin to the local electric and magnetic fields. These methods are suitable to study defects, diffusion, phase transitions and magnetic order. Common experimental methods include NMR , nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR), implanted radioactive probes as in the case of muon spin spectroscopy ( μ {\displaystyle \mu } SR), Mössbauer spectroscopy , β {\displaystyle \beta } NMR and perturbed angular correlation (PAC). PAC

3780-574: The properties of new materials, and in 1947 John Bardeen , Walter Brattain and William Shockley developed the first semiconductor -based transistor , heralding a revolution in electronics. In 1879, Edwin Herbert Hall working at the Johns Hopkins University discovered that a voltage developed across conductors which was transverse to both an electric current in the conductor and a magnetic field applied perpendicular to

3850-462: The quality of NMR measurement data. Quantum oscillations is another experimental method where high magnetic fields are used to study material properties such as the geometry of the Fermi surface . High magnetic fields will be useful in experimental testing of the various theoretical predictions such as the quantized magnetoelectric effect , image magnetic monopole , and the half-integer quantum Hall effect . The local structure , as well as

3920-504: The region, and novel ideas and methods must be invented to find the new laws that can describe the system. The simplest theory that can describe continuous phase transitions is the Ginzburg–Landau theory , which works in the so-called mean-field approximation . However, it can only roughly explain continuous phase transition for ferroelectrics and type I superconductors which involves long range microscopic interactions. For other types of systems that involves short range interactions near

3990-543: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title CMP . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CMP&oldid=1219369618 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Spanish-language text Articles containing Turkish-language text Articles containing French-language text Short description

4060-622: The scattering off nuclei and electron spins and magnetization (as neutrons have spin but no charge). Coulomb and Mott scattering measurements can be made by using electron beams as scattering probes. Similarly, positron annihilation can be used as an indirect measurement of local electron density. Laser spectroscopy is an excellent tool for studying the microscopic properties of a medium, for example, to study forbidden transitions in media with nonlinear optical spectroscopy . In experimental condensed matter physics, external magnetic fields act as thermodynamic variables that control

4130-414: The state, phase transitions and properties of material systems. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is a method by which external magnetic fields are used to find resonance modes of individual nuclei, thus giving information about the atomic, molecular, and bond structure of their environment. NMR experiments can be made in magnetic fields with strengths up to 60 tesla . Higher magnetic fields can improve

4200-415: The structure of the nearest neighbour atoms, can be investigated in condensed matter with magnetic resonance methods, such as electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), which are very sensitive to the details of the surrounding of nuclei and electrons by means of the hyperfine coupling. Both localized electrons and specific stable or unstable isotopes of the nuclei become

4270-450: The successful application of quantum mechanics to condensed matter problems in the 1930s. However, there still were several unsolved problems, most notably the description of superconductivity and the Kondo effect . After World War II , several ideas from quantum field theory were applied to condensed matter problems. These included recognition of collective excitation modes of solids and

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4340-465: The system refer to distinct ground states of the Hamiltonian matrix . Understanding the behavior of quantum phase transition is important in the difficult tasks of explaining the properties of rare-earth magnetic insulators, high-temperature superconductors, and other substances. Two classes of phase transitions occur: first-order transitions and second-order or continuous transitions . For

4410-440: The then newly discovered helium respectively. Paul Drude in 1900 proposed the first theoretical model for a classical electron moving through a metallic solid. Drude's model described properties of metals in terms of a gas of free electrons, and was the first microscopic model to explain empirical observations such as the Wiedemann–Franz law . However, despite the success of Drude's model , it had one notable problem: it

4480-405: The unanticipated precision of the integral plateau. It also implied that the Hall conductance is proportional to a topological invariant, called Chern number , whose relevance for the band structure of solids was formulated by David J. Thouless and collaborators. Shortly after, in 1982, Horst Störmer and Daniel Tsui observed the fractional quantum Hall effect where the conductance was now

4550-431: The use of numerical computation of electronic structure and mathematical tools to understand phenomena such as high-temperature superconductivity , topological phases , and gauge symmetries . Theoretical understanding of condensed matter physics is closely related to the notion of emergence , wherein complex assemblies of particles behave in ways dramatically different from their individual constituents. For example,

4620-460: Was augmented by Wolfgang Pauli , Arnold Sommerfeld , Felix Bloch and other physicists. Pauli realized that the free electrons in metal must obey the Fermi–Dirac statistics . Using this idea, he developed the theory of paramagnetism in 1926. Shortly after, Sommerfeld incorporated the Fermi–Dirac statistics into the free electron model and made it better to explain the heat capacity. Two years later, Bloch used quantum mechanics to describe

4690-405: Was discovered by Klaus von Klitzing , Dorda and Pepper in 1980 when they observed the Hall conductance to be integer multiples of a fundamental constant e 2 / h {\displaystyle e^{2}/h} .(see figure) The effect was observed to be independent of parameters such as system size and impurities. In 1981, theorist Robert Laughlin proposed a theory explaining

4760-527: Was studied by Max von Laue and Paul Knipping, when they observed the X-ray diffraction pattern of crystals, and concluded that crystals get their structure from periodic lattices of atoms. In 1928, Swiss physicist Felix Bloch provided a wave function solution to the Schrödinger equation with a periodic potential, known as Bloch's theorem . Calculating electronic properties of metals by solving

4830-415: Was unable to correctly explain the electronic contribution to the specific heat and magnetic properties of metals, and the temperature dependence of resistivity at low temperatures. In 1911, three years after helium was first liquefied, Onnes working at University of Leiden discovered superconductivity in mercury , when he observed the electrical resistivity of mercury to vanish at temperatures below

4900-562: Was written by 9 different people and, in all, received 11 successive additions: By the end of the 19th century the manuscript was found in the Royal Library of the Royal Palace of Madrid by composer and musicologist Francisco Asenjo Barbieri , who transcribed and published it in 1890 with the title "Cancionero musical de los siglos XV y XVI" (Musical songbook of the 15th and 16th centuries). The manuscript contains 458 works,

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