{"id":245038,"date":"2026-10-07T21:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/one-quantum-material-two-superconducting-states-stretching-helps-explain-conflicting-experiments"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:42:35","slug":"one-quantum-material-two-superconducting-states-stretching-helps-explain-conflicting-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/one-quantum-material-two-superconducting-states-stretching-helps-explain-conflicting-experiments","title":{"rendered":"One quantum material, two superconducting states: Stretching helps explain conflicting experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-quantum-material-two-superconducting-states-stretching-helps-explain-conflicting-experiments.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unconventional superconductors can host unusual electronic states, but understanding what drives their superconductivity becomes difficult when different forms of order coexist. The kagome metal CsV<sub>3<\/sub>Sb<sub>5<\/sub> has become a particularly debated example.<\/p>\n<p>It develops <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-09-interwoven-magnetism-intertwine-kagome-material.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">charge density wave order<\/a> at about 94 K before becoming superconducting at about 2.5 K, yet experiments have offered conflicting views of whether its superconducting gap is conventional or contains nodes.<\/p>\n<p>Resolving this question is important because knowing how superconductivity forms can guide the search for better superconducting materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unconventional superconductors can host unusual electronic states, but understanding what drives their superconductivity becomes difficult when different forms of order coexist. The kagome metal CsV3Sb5 has become a particularly debated example. It develops charge density wave order at about 94 K before becoming superconducting at about 2.5 K, yet experiments have offered conflicting views of [\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-245038","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\/245038","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=245038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}