{"id":207520,"date":"2025-03-01T04:18:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/atomically-thin-nbse%e2%82%82-demonstrates-resilient-superconducting-fluctuations"},"modified":"2025-03-01T04:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:18:46","slug":"atomically-thin-nbse%e2%82%82-demonstrates-resilient-superconducting-fluctuations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/atomically-thin-nbse%e2%82%82-demonstrates-resilient-superconducting-fluctuations","title":{"rendered":"Atomically thin NbSe\u2082 demonstrates resilient superconducting fluctuations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atomically-thin-nbsee28282-demonstrates-resilient-superconducting-fluctuations.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Superconductivity is an intriguing property observed in some materials, which entails the ability to conduct electric current combined with an electrical resistance of zero at low temperatures. Physicists have observed this property in various solid materials with different characteristics and atomic thicknesses.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at Nanjing University in China recently carried out a study aimed at further exploring the behavior of niobium diselenide (NbSe\u2082), a layered material that has been found to be a superconductor when it is atomically thin. Their paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.066002\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, unveils resilient superconducting fluctuations in atomically thin NbSe\u2082, which could play a part in the anomalous metallic state previously observed in this material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study was inspired by a long-standing puzzle in condensed matter physics, which can be summarized by the question: can metals truly exist in two dimensions as the ground state?\u201d Xiaoxiang Xi, senior author of the paper, told Phys.org. \u201cWhile we understand the behavior of everyday metals and insulators, ultrathin materials\u2014like sheets just one atom thick\u2014challenge these conventional rules.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superconductivity is an intriguing property observed in some materials, which entails the ability to conduct electric current combined with an electrical resistance of zero at low temperatures. Physicists have observed this property in various solid materials with different characteristics and atomic thicknesses. A team of researchers at Nanjing University in China recently carried out a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207520","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=207520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}