{"id":224738,"date":"2025-11-08T00:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/charge-carrier-pairs-in-cuprate-compounds-shed-light-on-high-temperature-superconductivity"},"modified":"2025-11-08T00:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:15:11","slug":"charge-carrier-pairs-in-cuprate-compounds-shed-light-on-high-temperature-superconductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/charge-carrier-pairs-in-cuprate-compounds-shed-light-on-high-temperature-superconductivity","title":{"rendered":"Charge carrier pairs in cuprate compounds shed light on high-temperature superconductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/charge-carrier-pairs-in-cuprate-compounds-shed-light-on-high-temperature-superconductivity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>High-temperature superconductivity is still not fully understood. Now, an international research team at BESSY II has measured the energy of charge carrier pairs in undoped La\u2082CuO\u2084. Their findings revealed that the interaction energies within the potentially superconducting copper oxide layers are significantly lower than those in the insulating lanthanum oxide layers. These results contribute to a better understanding of high-temperature superconductivity and could also be relevant for research into other functional materials.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-65314-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Around 40 years ago, a new class of materials suddenly became famous: high-temperature superconductors. These materials can conduct electricity completely loss-free, not only at temperatures close to absolute zero (0 Kelvin or minus 273 degrees Celsius), but also at much higher temperatures, albeit still well below room temperature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-temperature superconductivity is still not fully understood. Now, an international research team at BESSY II has measured the energy of charge carrier pairs in undoped La\u2082CuO\u2084. Their findings revealed that the interaction energies within the potentially superconducting copper oxide layers are significantly lower than those in the insulating lanthanum oxide layers. These results contribute to [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224738","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=224738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}