{"id":24382,"date":"2016-04-07T09:17:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T16:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/quantum-effects-affect-the-best-superconductor"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:26:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:26:19","slug":"quantum-effects-affect-the-best-superconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/quantum-effects-affect-the-best-superconductor","title":{"rendered":"Quantum effects affect the best superconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencecodex.com\/aggregated-images\/tech\/h904e1Cy1r0oa6Uc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The theoretical results of a piece of international research published in Nature, whose first author is Ion Errea, a researcher at the UPV\/EHU and DIPC, suggest that the quantum nature of hydrogen (in other words, the possibility of it behaving like a particle or a wave) considerably affects the structural properties of hydrogen-rich compounds (potential room-temperature superconducting substances). This is in fact the case of the superconductor hydrogen sulphide: a stinking compound that smells of rotten eggs, which when subjected to pressures a million times higher than atmospheric pressure, behaves like a superconductor at the highest temperature ever identified. This new advance in understanding the physics of high-temperature superconductivity could help to drive forward progress in the search for room-temperature superconductors, which could be used in levitating trains or next-generation supercomputers, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Superconductors are materials that carry electrical current with zero electrical resistance. Conventional or low-temperature ones behave that way only when the substance is cooled down to temperatures close to absolute zero (&minus;273 \u00b0C o 0 degrees Kelvin). Last year, however, German researchers identified the high-temperature superconducting properties of hydrogen sulphide which makes it the superconductor at the highest temperature ever discovered: &minus;70 \u00b0C or 203 K.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencecodex.com\/quantum_effects_affect_the_best_superconductor-179690\">http:\/\/www.sciencecodex.com\/quantum_effects_affect_the_best_...tor-179690<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theoretical results of a piece of international research published in Nature, whose first author is Ion Errea, a researcher at the UPV\/EHU and DIPC, suggest that the quantum nature of hydrogen (in other words, the possibility of it behaving like a particle or a wave) considerably affects the structural properties of hydrogen-rich compounds (potential [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,44,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24382","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42684,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24382\/revisions\/42684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}