{"id":225486,"date":"2025-11-20T01:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/surface-only-superconductor-is-the-strangest-of-its-kind"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:27:03","slug":"surface-only-superconductor-is-the-strangest-of-its-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/surface-only-superconductor-is-the-strangest-of-its-kind","title":{"rendered":"Surface-only superconductor is the strangest of its kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surface-only-superconductor-is-the-strangest-of-its-kind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Something strange goes on inside the material platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi\u2082). A new study by researchers at IFW Dresden and the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat demonstrates that while PtBi\u2082 may look like a typical shiny gray crystal, electrons moving through it do some things never seen before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tu-dresden.de\/mn\/physik\/sfb1143\/der-sfb\/news\/forschung-mit-einem-supraleitungs-sandwich-auf-der-suche-nach-majorana-qubits?set_language=en\" target=\"_blank\">In 2024<\/a>, the research team demonstrated that the top and bottom surfaces of the material superconduct, meaning <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrons<\/a> pair up and move without resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they reveal that this pairing works differently from any superconductor we have seen before. Enticingly, the edges around the superconducting surfaces hold long-sought-after Majorana particles, which may be used as fault-tolerant quantum bits (qubits) in quantum computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something strange goes on inside the material platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi\u2082). A new study by researchers at IFW Dresden and the Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat demonstrates that while PtBi\u2082 may look like a typical shiny gray crystal, electrons moving through it do some things never seen before. In 2024, the research team demonstrated that the top and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225486","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=225486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}