{"id":196408,"date":"2024-09-19T21:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T02:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/mysteries-of-the-bizarre-pseudogap-in-quantum-physics-finally-untangled"},"modified":"2024-09-19T21:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T02:23:17","slug":"mysteries-of-the-bizarre-pseudogap-in-quantum-physics-finally-untangled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/mysteries-of-the-bizarre-pseudogap-in-quantum-physics-finally-untangled","title":{"rendered":"Mysteries of the bizarre \u2018pseudogap\u2019 in quantum physics finally untangled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysteries-of-the-bizarre-pseudogap-in-quantum-physics-finally-untangled2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certain materials involving copper and oxygen display superconductivity (where electricity flows without resistance) at relatively high \u2014 but still frigid \u2014 temperatures below minus 140 degrees Celsius. At higher temperatures, these materials fall into what\u2019s called the pseudogap state, where they sometimes act like a normal metal and sometimes act more like semiconductors. Scientists have found that the pseudogap shows up in all so-called high-temperature superconducting materials. But they didn\u2019t understand why or how it shows up, or if it sticks around as the temperature drops to absolute zero (minus 273.15 degrees Celsius), the unreachable lower limit of temperature at which molecular motion stops.<\/p>\n<p>By better understanding how the pseudogap appears and how it relates to the theoretical properties of the superconductive materials at absolute zero, scientists are getting a clearer picture of those materials, says study co-author Antoine Georges, director of the Flatiron Institute\u2019s Center for Computational Quantum Physics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like you have a landscape and a lot of fog, and previously you could just see a few valleys and a few peaks,\u201d he says. \u201cNow the fog is dissipating, and we can see more of the full landscape. It\u2019s really quite an exciting time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain materials involving copper and oxygen display superconductivity (where electricity flows without resistance) at relatively high \u2014 but still frigid \u2014 temperatures below minus 140 degrees Celsius. At higher temperatures, these materials fall into what\u2019s called the pseudogap state, where they sometimes act like a normal metal and sometimes act more like semiconductors. Scientists have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196408","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}