{"id":237625,"date":"2026-05-23T02:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/nickelate-reveals-nodeless-gap-providing-key-clue-to-high-temperature-superconductivity"},"modified":"2026-05-23T02:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:19:55","slug":"nickelate-reveals-nodeless-gap-providing-key-clue-to-high-temperature-superconductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/nickelate-reveals-nodeless-gap-providing-key-clue-to-high-temperature-superconductivity","title":{"rendered":"Nickelate reveals nodeless gap, providing key clue to high-temperature superconductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nickelate-reveals-nodeless-gap-providing-key-clue-to-high-temperature-superconductivity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mechanism of high-temperature (T<sub>C<\/sub>) superconductivity is a key challenge in condensed matter physics. Recently, Chinese scientists made significant progress in the study of high-T<sub>C<\/sub> nickelate superconductors.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists observed a nodeless superconducting gap and discovered electron-boson coupling by measuring the electronic structures of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-10-atomic-defects-nickelate-narrow-explanations.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Ruddlesden-Popper<\/a> bilayer nickelate superconducting thin films. These results provide crucial evidence for two fundamental issues in the mechanism of high-T<sub>C<\/sub> nickelates: \u201csuperconducting gap symmetry\u201d and \u201csuperconducting pairing mechanism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This study, conducted by a team led by Prof. He Junfeng from the University of <i>Science<\/i> and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of <i>Science<\/i>s, in collaboration with a team led by Prof. Xue Qikun and Prof. Chen Zhuoyu from the Southern University of <i>Science<\/i> and Technology (SUSTech), was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adw8329\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Science<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mechanism of high-temperature (TC) superconductivity is a key challenge in condensed matter physics. Recently, Chinese scientists made significant progress in the study of high-TC nickelate superconductors. For the first time, scientists observed a nodeless superconducting gap and discovered electron-boson coupling by measuring the electronic structures of Ruddlesden-Popper bilayer nickelate superconducting thin films. These results [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237625","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=237625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}