{"id":107311,"date":"2020-05-19T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-use-pressure-to-make-liquid-magnetism-breakthrough"},"modified":"2020-05-19T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:52:12","slug":"scientists-use-pressure-to-make-liquid-magnetism-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-use-pressure-to-make-liquid-magnetism-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use pressure to make liquid magnetism breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-pressure-to-make-liquid-magnetism-breakthrough3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It sounds like a riddle: What do you get if you take two small diamonds, put a small magnetic crystal between them and squeeze them together very slowly?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is a magnetic liquid, which seems counterintuitive. Liquids become solids under pressure, but not generally the other way around. But this unusual pivotal discovery, unveiled by a team of researchers working at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE\u2019s Argonne National Laboratory, may provide scientists with new insight into <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high-temperature+superconductivity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high-temperature superconductivity<\/a> and quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>Though scientists and engineers have been making use of superconducting materials for decades, the exact process by which <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high-temperature+superconductors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high-temperature superconductors<\/a> conduct electricity without resistance remains a quantum mechanical mystery. The telltale signs of a superconductor are a loss of resistance and a loss of magnetism. High-temperature superconductors can operate at temperatures above those of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/liquid+nitrogen\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">liquid nitrogen<\/a> (\u2212320 degrees Fahrenheit), making them attractive for lossless transmission lines in power grids and other applications in the energy sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like a riddle: What do you get if you take two small diamonds, put a small magnetic crystal between them and squeeze them together very slowly? The answer is a magnetic liquid, which seems counterintuitive. Liquids become solids under pressure, but not generally the other way around. But this unusual pivotal discovery, unveiled [\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-107311","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\/107311","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=107311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}