{"id":223419,"date":"2025-10-15T03:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/anomalous-metal-sheds-light-on-impossible-state-between-superconductivity-and-insulation"},"modified":"2025-10-15T03:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:13:41","slug":"anomalous-metal-sheds-light-on-impossible-state-between-superconductivity-and-insulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/anomalous-metal-sheds-light-on-impossible-state-between-superconductivity-and-insulation","title":{"rendered":"Anomalous metal sheds light on \u2018impossible\u2019 state between superconductivity and insulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anomalous-metal-sheds-light-on-impossible-state-between-superconductivity-and-insulation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, steered very thin conductors from superconductivity to insulation\u2014creating an \u201cimpossible,\u201d strange state between the two mutually exclusive states.<\/p>\n<p>Materials research is absolutely crucial when dealing with quantum states. Whatever material is used as the basis for creating controllable quantum states, like if you want to build applications using quantum states for computing, sensing, or communication, the materials often define to what extent you can eliminate the ever-present noise that disturbs or even disrupts the desired \u201cclean\u201d quantum states or signals. It is an ongoing battle.<\/p>\n<p>The team led by Saulius Vaitiekenas, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, has succeeded in creating what is supposed to be an impossible intermediate state between superconductor = absolutely no resistance or loss of electrical connection\u2014and total insulation = complete shut-off of the electrical signal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, steered very thin conductors from superconductivity to insulation\u2014creating an \u201cimpossible,\u201d strange state between the two mutually exclusive states. Materials research is absolutely crucial when dealing with quantum states. Whatever material is used as the basis for creating controllable quantum states, like if you want to build [\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-223419","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\/223419","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=223419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}