{"id":211036,"date":"2025-04-10T02:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/superconductivity-traverses-a-single-molecule-bridge"},"modified":"2025-04-10T02:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:18:09","slug":"superconductivity-traverses-a-single-molecule-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/superconductivity-traverses-a-single-molecule-bridge","title":{"rendered":"Superconductivity Traverses a Single Molecule Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superconductivity-traverses-a-single-molecule-bridge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A single molecule provides a controllable connection between a normal metal and a superconductor.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have caused a material\u2019s superconductivity to permeate into a nearby normal metal via a single molecule [<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v18\/79#c1\" class=\"\">1<\/a>]. They showed that this effect could be controlled and say that this control could allow the creation of so-called Majorana quasiparticles, which many research teams are exploring as future quantum bits (qubits) for quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>The spread of superconductivity into a normal metal in contact with a superconductor has been studied for decades. These experiments are typically done with thin films of the materials. However, the microscopic mechanism underpinning the effect\u2014a normal-to-super-current conversion known as Andreev reflection\u2014can be hard to control, and control is essential for applications of the effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single molecule provides a controllable connection between a normal metal and a superconductor. Researchers have caused a material\u2019s superconductivity to permeate into a nearby normal metal via a single molecule [1]. They showed that this effect could be controlled and say that this control could allow the creation of so-called Majorana quasiparticles, which many [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211036","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\/211036","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=211036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}