{"id":178711,"date":"2023-12-20T03:22:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-new-strategy-for-making-and-manipulating-higher-temperature-superconductors"},"modified":"2023-12-20T03:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T09:22:42","slug":"a-new-strategy-for-making-and-manipulating-higher-temperature-superconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-new-strategy-for-making-and-manipulating-higher-temperature-superconductors","title":{"rendered":"A new strategy for making and manipulating higher-temperature superconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-strategy-for-making-and-manipulating-higher-temperature-superconductors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Superconductors have intrigued physicists for decades. But these materials, which allow the perfect, lossless flow of electrons, usually only exhibit this quantum-mechanical peculiarity at temperatures so low\u2014a few degrees above absolute zero\u2014as to render them impractical.<\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Harvard Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Philip Kim has demonstrated a new strategy for making and manipulating a widely studied class of higher-temperature superconductors called cuprates, clearing a path to engineering new, unusual forms of superconductivity in previously unattainable materials.<\/p>\n<p>Using a uniquely low-temperature device fabrication method, Kim and his team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1126\/science.abl8371?af=R\">report in the journal <i>Science<\/i><\/a> a promising candidate for the world\u2019s first high-temperature, superconducting diode\u2014essentially, a switch that makes current flow in one direction\u2014made out of thin <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cuprate\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cuprate<\/a> crystals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superconductors have intrigued physicists for decades. But these materials, which allow the perfect, lossless flow of electrons, usually only exhibit this quantum-mechanical peculiarity at temperatures so low\u2014a few degrees above absolute zero\u2014as to render them impractical. A research team led by Harvard Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Philip Kim has demonstrated a new strategy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178711","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}