{"id":143382,"date":"2022-08-01T18:25:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/study-finds-nickelate-superconductors-are-intrinsically-magnetic"},"modified":"2022-08-01T18:25:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T23:25:10","slug":"study-finds-nickelate-superconductors-are-intrinsically-magnetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/study-finds-nickelate-superconductors-are-intrinsically-magnetic","title":{"rendered":"Study finds nickelate superconductors are intrinsically magnetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-nickelate-superconductors-are-intrinsically-magnetic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electrons find each other repulsive. Nothing personal\u2014it\u2019s just that their negative charges repel each other. So getting them to pair up and travel together, like they do in superconducting materials, requires a little nudge.<\/p>\n<p>In old-school superconductors, which were discovered in 1911 and conduct electric current with no resistance, but only at extremely <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cold+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cold temperatures<\/a>, the nudge comes from vibrations in the material\u2019s atomic lattice.<\/p>\n<p>But in newer, \u201cunconventional\u201d superconductors\u2014which are especially exciting because of their potential to operate at close to room temperature for things like zero-loss power transmission\u2014no one knows for sure what the nudge is, although researchers think it might involve stripes of electric charge, waves of flip-flopping <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electron+spins\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electron spins<\/a> that create magnetic excitations, or some combination of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrons find each other repulsive. Nothing personal\u2014it\u2019s just that their negative charges repel each other. So getting them to pair up and travel together, like they do in superconducting materials, requires a little nudge. In old-school superconductors, which were discovered in 1911 and conduct electric current with no resistance, but only at extremely cold temperatures, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143382","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}