{"id":135425,"date":"2022-02-09T23:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T07:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/study-raises-new-possibilities-for-triggering-room-temperature-superconductivity-with-light"},"modified":"2022-02-09T23:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T07:22:18","slug":"study-raises-new-possibilities-for-triggering-room-temperature-superconductivity-with-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/study-raises-new-possibilities-for-triggering-room-temperature-superconductivity-with-light","title":{"rendered":"Study raises new possibilities for triggering room-temperature superconductivity with light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-raises-new-possibilities-for-triggering-room-temperature-superconductivity-with-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much like people can learn more about themselves by stepping outside of their comfort zones, researchers can learn more about a system by giving it a jolt that makes it a little unstable\u2014scientists call this \u201cout of equilibrium\u201d\u2014and watching what happens as it settles back down into a more stable state.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superconducting+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superconducting material<\/a> known as yttrium barium copper oxide, or YBCO, experiments have shown that under certain conditions, knocking it out of equilibrium with a laser pulse allows it to superconduct\u2014conduct electrical current with no loss\u2014at much closer to room <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/temperature\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">temperature<\/a> than researchers expected. This could be a big deal, given that scientists have been pursuing room-temperature superconductors for more than three decades.<\/p>\n<p>But do observations of this unstable state have any bearing on how high-temperature superconductors would work in the real world, where applications like power lines, maglev trains, particle accelerators and medical equipment require them to be stable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much like people can learn more about themselves by stepping outside of their comfort zones, researchers can learn more about a system by giving it a jolt that makes it a little unstable\u2014scientists call this \u201cout of equilibrium\u201d\u2014and watching what happens as it settles back down into a more stable state. In the case of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135425","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}