{"id":106677,"date":"2020-05-07T03:46:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T10:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/a-discovery-that-long-eluded-physicists-superconductivity-to-the-edge"},"modified":"2020-05-07T03:46:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T10:46:25","slug":"a-discovery-that-long-eluded-physicists-superconductivity-to-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/a-discovery-that-long-eluded-physicists-superconductivity-to-the-edge","title":{"rendered":"A Discovery That Long Eluded Physicists: Superconductivity to the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-discovery-that-long-eluded-physicists-superconductivity-to-the-edge3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Princeton researchers detect a supercurrent <em>\u2014 <\/em>a current flowing without energy loss <em>\u2014 <\/em>at the edge of a superconductor with a topological twist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A discovery that long eluded physicists has been detected in a laboratory at Princeton. A team of physicists detected superconducting currents \u2014 the flow of electrons without wasting energy \u2014 along the exterior edge of a superconducting material. The finding was published May 1 in the journal Science.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The superconductor that the researchers studied is also a topological semi-metal, a material that comes with its own unusual electronic properties. The finding suggests ways to unlock a new era of \u201ctopological superconductivity\u201d that could have value for quantum computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton researchers detect a supercurrent \u2014 a current flowing without energy loss \u2014 at the edge of a superconductor with a topological twist. A discovery that long eluded physicists has been detected in a laboratory at Princeton. A team of physicists detected superconducting currents \u2014 the flow of electrons without wasting energy \u2014 along the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}