{"id":22614,"date":"2016-02-22T17:33:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T01:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/quantum-phase-transition-underpins-superconductivity-in-copper-oxides"},"modified":"2016-02-22T17:33:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T01:33:38","slug":"quantum-phase-transition-underpins-superconductivity-in-copper-oxides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/quantum-phase-transition-underpins-superconductivity-in-copper-oxides","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Phase Transition Underpins Superconductivity in Copper Oxides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have zoomed in on the transition that could explain why copper-oxides have such impressive superconducting powers.<\/p>\n<p>Settling a 20-year debate in the field, they found that a mysterious quantum phase transition associated with the termination of a regime called the \u201cpseudogap\u201d causes a sharp drop in the number of conducting electrons available to pair up for superconductivity. The team hypothesizes that whatever is happening at this point is probably the reason that cuprates support superconductivity at much higher temperatures than other materials\u2014about half way to <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/room+temperature\/\" rel=\"tag\">room temperature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very likely that the reason superconductivity grows in the first place, and the reason it grows so strongly, is because of that <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/critical+point\/\" rel=\"tag\">critical point<\/a>,\u201d CIFAR Senior Fellow Louis Taillefer (Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke) says. The new findings are published in <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecnmag.com\/news\/2016\/02\/quantum-phase-transition-underpins-superconductivity-copper-oxides\">http:\/\/www.ecnmag.com\/news\/2016\/02\/quantum-phase-transition-...per-oxides<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have zoomed in on the transition that could explain why copper-oxides have such impressive superconducting powers. Settling a 20-year debate in the field, they found that a mysterious quantum phase transition associated with the termination of a regime called the \u201cpseudogap\u201d causes a sharp drop in the number of conducting electrons available to pair [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22614","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}