{"id":136704,"date":"2022-03-11T02:03:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/magnetism-helps-electrons-vanish-in-high-temp-superconductors"},"modified":"2022-03-11T02:03:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:03:05","slug":"magnetism-helps-electrons-vanish-in-high-temp-superconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/magnetism-helps-electrons-vanish-in-high-temp-superconductors","title":{"rendered":"Magnetism helps electrons vanish in high-temp superconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetism-helps-electrons-vanish-in-high-temp-superconductors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Superconductors\u2014metals in which electricity flows without resistance\u2014hold promise as the defining material of the near future, according to physicist Brad Ramshaw, and are already used in medical imaging machines, drug discovery research and quantum computers being built by Google and IBM.<\/p>\n<p>However, the super-low temperatures <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/conventional+superconductors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">conventional superconductors<\/a> need to function\u2014a few degrees above absolute zero\u2014make them too expensive for wide use.<\/p>\n<p>In their quest to find more useful superconductors, Ramshaw, the Dick &amp; Dale Reis Johnson Assistant Professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&amp;S), and colleagues have discovered that magnetism is key to understanding the behavior of electrons in \u201chigh-temperature\u201d superconductors. With this finding, they\u2019ve solved a 30-year-old mystery surrounding this class of superconductors, which function at much higher temperatures, greater than 100 degrees above absolute zero. Their paper, \u201cFermi Surface Transformation at the Pseudogap Critical Point of a Cuprate Superconductor,\u201d published in <i>Nature Physics<\/i> March 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superconductors\u2014metals in which electricity flows without resistance\u2014hold promise as the defining material of the near future, according to physicist Brad Ramshaw, and are already used in medical imaging machines, drug discovery research and quantum computers being built by Google and IBM. However, the super-low temperatures conventional superconductors need to function\u2014a few degrees above absolute zero\u2014make [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136704","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\/136704","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=136704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}