{"id":209386,"date":"2025-03-21T06:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-simple-way-to-control-superconductivity-twisting-atomically-thin-layers-fine-tunes-properties"},"modified":"2025-03-21T06:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:21:14","slug":"a-simple-way-to-control-superconductivity-twisting-atomically-thin-layers-fine-tunes-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/a-simple-way-to-control-superconductivity-twisting-atomically-thin-layers-fine-tunes-properties","title":{"rendered":"A simple way to control superconductivity: Twisting atomically thin layers fine-tunes properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-simple-way-to-control-superconductivity-twisting-atomically-thin-layers-fine-tunes-properties.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) and collaborators have discovered a new way to control superconductivity\u2014an essential phenomenon for developing more energy-efficient technologies and quantum computing\u2014by simply twisting atomically thin layers within a layered device.<\/p>\n<p>By adjusting the twist angle, they were able to finely tune the \u201csuperconducting gap,\u201d which plays a key role in the behavior of these materials. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-02828-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Physics.<\/p>\n<p>The superconducting gap is the energy threshold required to break apart Cooper pairs\u2014bound electron pairs that enable superconductivity at low temperatures. Having a larger gap allows superconductivity to persist at higher, more accessible temperatures, and tuning the gap is also important for optimizing Cooper pair behavior at the nanoscale, contributing to the high functionality of quantum devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) and collaborators have discovered a new way to control superconductivity\u2014an essential phenomenon for developing more energy-efficient technologies and quantum computing\u2014by simply twisting atomically thin layers within a layered device. By adjusting the twist angle, they were able to finely tune the \u201csuperconducting gap,\u201d which plays [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209386","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=209386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}