{"id":236759,"date":"2026-05-08T06:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/quantum-metallurgy-might-be-a-new-frontier-for-superconducting-materials-and-artificial-neurons"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:06:48","slug":"quantum-metallurgy-might-be-a-new-frontier-for-superconducting-materials-and-artificial-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/quantum-metallurgy-might-be-a-new-frontier-for-superconducting-materials-and-artificial-neurons","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Metallurgy Might Be A New Frontier For Superconducting Materials And Artificial Neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-metallurgy-might-be-a-new-frontier-for-superconducting-materials-and-artificial-neurons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key emphasis here is that disorder is a really important parameter. It\u2019s this tunable thing when we\u2019re playing with quantum phases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Modifying the structure of electron crystals is extremely exciting. In superconductors, materials that transport electricity without resistance, the superconducting state can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abd7213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coincide with changes<\/a> to charge-density waves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we\u2019re doing basic science in these really exotic materials and exotic phases, dramatically new innovations happen,\u201d Hovden told IFLScience. \u201cTechnological revolutions like the semiconductor, transistor, and computer happened because we did basic science on atomic structures, on atoms, on matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe key emphasis here is that disorder is a really important parameter. It\u2019s this tunable thing when we\u2019re playing with quantum phases.\u201d Modifying the structure of electron crystals is extremely exciting. In superconductors, materials that transport electricity without resistance, the superconducting state can coincide with changes to charge-density waves. \u201cWhen we\u2019re doing basic science in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236759","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\/236759","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}