{"id":239592,"date":"2026-06-25T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-magnetic-field-that-kills-superconductivity-can-also-bring-it-back"},"modified":"2026-06-25T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:25:00","slug":"a-magnetic-field-that-kills-superconductivity-can-also-bring-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-magnetic-field-that-kills-superconductivity-can-also-bring-it-back","title":{"rendered":"A magnetic field that kills superconductivity can also bring it back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-magnetic-field-that-kills-superconductivity-can-also-bring-it-back2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Magnetic fields are generally known to destroy superconductivity in a material. However, in exceptional cases, they can lead to what is known as \u201cre-entrant superconductivity\u201d\u2014where superconductivity disappears as expected, but then unexpectedly returns when the magnetic field is increased further.<\/p>\n<p>This behavior is sometimes seen in bulk, three-dimensional materials, but now, in a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aeg0460\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, a team led by the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) in Japan has seen the phenomenon in a very thin conducting layer at the boundary between two insulating oxide materials. Because oxide interfaces can be precisely engineered and controlled, the discovery provides a new platform for investigating unconventional forms of superconductivity and the quantum mechanisms that allow it to survive under unusual conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetic fields are generally known to destroy superconductivity in a material. However, in exceptional cases, they can lead to what is known as \u201cre-entrant superconductivity\u201d\u2014where superconductivity disappears as expected, but then unexpectedly returns when the magnetic field is increased further. This behavior is sometimes seen in bulk, three-dimensional materials, but now, in a study published [\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-239592","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\/239592","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=239592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}