{"id":163853,"date":"2023-05-14T14:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-discover-superconductive-images-are-actually-3d-and-disorder-driven-fractals"},"modified":"2023-05-14T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T19:22:38","slug":"researchers-discover-superconductive-images-are-actually-3d-and-disorder-driven-fractals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/researchers-discover-superconductive-images-are-actually-3d-and-disorder-driven-fractals","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover superconductive images are actually 3D and disorder-driven fractals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-superconductive-images-are-actually-3d-and-disorder-driven-fractals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meeting the world\u2019s energy demands is reaching a critical point. Powering the technological age has caused issues globally. It is increasingly important to create superconductors that can operate at ambient pressure and temperature. This would go a long way toward solving the energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Advancements with superconductivity hinge on advances in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum materials<\/a>. When electrons inside of quantum materials undergo a phase transition, the electrons can form intricate patterns, such as fractals. A fractal is a never-ending pattern. When zooming in on a fractal, the image looks the same. Commonly seen fractals can be a tree or frost on a windowpane in winter. Fractals can form in two dimensions, like the frost on a window, or in three-dimensional space like the limbs of a tree.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Erica Carlson, a 150th Anniversary Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University, led a team that developed theoretical techniques for characterizing the fractal shapes that these electrons make, in order to uncover the underlying physics driving the patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting the world\u2019s energy demands is reaching a critical point. Powering the technological age has caused issues globally. It is increasingly important to create superconductors that can operate at ambient pressure and temperature. This would go a long way toward solving the energy crisis. Advancements with superconductivity hinge on advances in quantum materials. When electrons [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163853","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}