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Indium antimonide nanowires were connected to a gold contact and a material with this property in a 2012 experiment to produce Majorana (“ma-yo-RA-na”) zero modes. Materials with this property contain Bogoliubov quasiparticles. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero discovered that this property occurs with a twist angle (10[1])of 1.1 (10[1])degrees in bilayer (10[1])graphene. (10[1])Two materials with this property are joined by a weak link in a Josephson junction. (10[2])Unlike the retracted LK99, YBCO (10[1])is a material that displays this property at a relatively high temperature. In BCS theory, this property results from the interaction between electrons and phonons, causing electrons to form Cooper pairs. Materials (10[1])with this property expel magnetic fields in the Meissner effect. For 10 points, name this property of materials with zero resistance. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: superconductivity [or superconductors]
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