{"id":228041,"date":"2025-12-30T02:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/josephson-junction-behavior-observed-with-only-one-superconductor-and-iron-barrier"},"modified":"2025-12-30T02:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:27:55","slug":"josephson-junction-behavior-observed-with-only-one-superconductor-and-iron-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/josephson-junction-behavior-observed-with-only-one-superconductor-and-iron-barrier","title":{"rendered":"Josephson junction behavior observed with only one superconductor and iron barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/josephson-junction-behavior-observed-with-only-one-superconductor-and-iron-barrier2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Separate two superconductors with a thin layer of material and something strange happens.<\/p>\n<p>Their superconductivity\u2014a property driven by paired electrons that allows electricity to flow without energy loss\u2014can leak into the barrier and link together, synchronizing their behavior despite the separation.<\/p>\n<p>This device is known as a Josephson junction. It\u2019s the foundational building block of quantum computers and advances of it won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separate two superconductors with a thin layer of material and something strange happens. Their superconductivity\u2014a property driven by paired electrons that allows electricity to flow without energy loss\u2014can leak into the barrier and link together, synchronizing their behavior despite the separation. This device is known as a Josephson junction. It\u2019s the foundational building block of [\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-228041","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\/228041","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=228041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}