{"id":189337,"date":"2024-05-14T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/quantum-mystery-solved-scientists-shed-light-on-perplexing-high-temperature-superconductors"},"modified":"2024-05-14T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T12:24:10","slug":"quantum-mystery-solved-scientists-shed-light-on-perplexing-high-temperature-superconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/quantum-mystery-solved-scientists-shed-light-on-perplexing-high-temperature-superconductors","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Mystery Solved \u2014 Scientists Shed Light on Perplexing High-Temperature Superconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-mystery-solved-scientists-shed-light-on-perplexing-high-temperature-superconductors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Flatiron Institute senior research scientist Shiwei Zhang and his team have utilized the Hubbard model to computationally re-create key features of the superconductivity in materials called cuprates that have puzzled scientists for decades.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Superfast hovering trains, long-distance power transmission without energy loss, and quicker MRI scanners \u2014 all these incredible technological innovations could be within reach if we could develop a material that conducts electricity without any resistance, or \u201csuperconducts,\u201d at approximately room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper recently published in the journal <em><i>Science<\/i><\/em>, researchers report a breakthrough in our understanding of the origins of superconductivity at relatively high (though still frigid) temperatures. The findings concern a class of superconductors that has puzzled scientists since 1986, called \u2018cuprates.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flatiron Institute senior research scientist Shiwei Zhang and his team have utilized the Hubbard model to computationally re-create key features of the superconductivity in materials called cuprates that have puzzled scientists for decades. Superfast hovering trains, long-distance power transmission without energy loss, and quicker MRI scanners \u2014 all these incredible technological innovations could be within [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189337","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=189337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}