{"id":32310,"date":"2016-11-30T10:51:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/quantum-obstacle-course-changes-material-from-superconductor-to-insulator"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:00:38","slug":"quantum-obstacle-course-changes-material-from-superconductor-to-insulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/quantum-obstacle-course-changes-material-from-superconductor-to-insulator","title":{"rendered":"Quantum obstacle course changes material from superconductor to insulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-obstacle-course-changes-material-from-superconductor-to-insulator.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Brown University have demonstrated an unusual method of putting the brakes on superconductivity, the ability of a material to conduct an electrical current with zero resistance.<\/p>\n<p>The research shows that weak magnetic fields\u2014far weaker than those that normally interrupt superconductivity\u2014can interact with defects in a material to create a \u201crandom gauge field,\u201d a kind of quantum obstacle course that generates resistance for superconducting electrons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re disrupting superconductivity in a way that people haven\u2019t done before,\u201d said Jim Valles, a professor of physics at Brown who directed the work. \u201cThis kind of phase transition involving a random gauge field had been predicted theoretically, but this is the first time it has been demonstrated in an experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-11-quantum-obstacle-material-superconductor-insulator.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;11-quantum-obstacle-material-s...lator.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Brown University have demonstrated an unusual method of putting the brakes on superconductivity, the ability of a material to conduct an electrical current with zero resistance. The research shows that weak magnetic fields\u2014far weaker than those that normally interrupt superconductivity\u2014can interact with defects in a material to create a \u201crandom gauge field,\u201d a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32310","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\/32310","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=32310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65674,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32310\/revisions\/65674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}