{"id":205710,"date":"2025-02-06T08:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/physicists-measure-a-key-aspect-of-superconductivity-in-magic-angle-graphene"},"modified":"2025-02-06T08:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:21:23","slug":"physicists-measure-a-key-aspect-of-superconductivity-in-magic-angle-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/physicists-measure-a-key-aspect-of-superconductivity-in-magic-angle-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in \u2018magic-angle\u2019 graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-measure-a-key-aspect-of-superconductivity-in-magic-angle-graphene.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Superconducting materials are similar to the carpool lane in a congested interstate. Like commuters who ride together, electrons that pair up can bypass the regular traffic, moving through the material with zero friction.<\/p>\n<p>But just as with carpools, how easily <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electron+pairs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electron pairs<\/a> can flow depends on a number of conditions, including the density of pairs that are moving through the material. This \u201csuperfluid stiffness,\u201d or the ease with which a current of electron pairs can flow, is a key measure of a material\u2019s superconductivity.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have now directly measured superfluid stiffness for the first time in \u201cmagic-angle\u201d graphene\u2014materials that are made from two or more atomically thin sheets of graphene twisted with respect to each other at just the right angle to enable a host of exceptional properties, including unconventional superconductivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superconducting materials are similar to the carpool lane in a congested interstate. Like commuters who ride together, electrons that pair up can bypass the regular traffic, moving through the material with zero friction. But just as with carpools, how easily electron pairs can flow depends on a number of conditions, including the density of pairs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205710","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=205710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}