{"id":166253,"date":"2023-06-23T06:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T11:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/physicists-discover-a-new-switch-for-superconductivity"},"modified":"2023-06-23T06:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T11:23:38","slug":"physicists-discover-a-new-switch-for-superconductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/physicists-discover-a-new-switch-for-superconductivity","title":{"rendered":"Physicists discover a new switch for superconductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-a-new-switch-for-superconductivity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under certain conditions\u2014usually exceedingly cold ones\u2014some materials shift their structure to unlock new, superconducting behavior. This structural shift is known as a \u201cnematic transition,\u201d and physicists suspect that it offers a new way to drive materials into a superconducting state where electrons can flow entirely friction-free.<\/p>\n<p>But what exactly drives this transition in the first place? The answer could help scientists improve existing superconductors and discover new ones.<\/p>\n<p>Now, MIT physicists have identified the key to how one class of superconductors undergoes a nematic transition, and it\u2019s in surprising contrast to what many scientists had assumed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under certain conditions\u2014usually exceedingly cold ones\u2014some materials shift their structure to unlock new, superconducting behavior. This structural shift is known as a \u201cnematic transition,\u201d and physicists suspect that it offers a new way to drive materials into a superconducting state where electrons can flow entirely friction-free. But what exactly drives this transition in the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166253","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}