{"id":239474,"date":"2026-06-23T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/broken-time-reversal-symmetry-phase-in-kagome-metals-may-establish-conditions-for-superconductivity"},"modified":"2026-06-23T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:20:07","slug":"broken-time-reversal-symmetry-phase-in-kagome-metals-may-establish-conditions-for-superconductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/broken-time-reversal-symmetry-phase-in-kagome-metals-may-establish-conditions-for-superconductivity","title":{"rendered":"Broken time-reversal symmetry phase in kagome metals may establish conditions for superconductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/broken-time-reversal-symmetry-phase-in-kagome-metals-may-establish-conditions-for-superconductivity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have long suspected that a peculiar quantum state lurks inside a class of materials known as kagome metals, but proving its existence has been elusive. Now, a team led by Yeongkwan Kim at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has performed experiments on a kagome metal that provide the strongest evidence yet for this exotic state.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-026-03331-2\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Physics<\/i><\/a>, the team\u2019s results could shed new light on how these materials transition into superconductivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have long suspected that a peculiar quantum state lurks inside a class of materials known as kagome metals, but proving its existence has been elusive. Now, a team led by Yeongkwan Kim at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has performed experiments on a kagome metal that provide the strongest evidence yet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239474","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\/239474","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=239474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}