{"id":91265,"date":"2019-05-24T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T17:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/tapping-the-power-of-ai-and-high-performance-computing-to-extend-evolution-to-superconductors"},"modified":"2019-05-24T10:27:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T17:27:28","slug":"tapping-the-power-of-ai-and-high-performance-computing-to-extend-evolution-to-superconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/tapping-the-power-of-ai-and-high-performance-computing-to-extend-evolution-to-superconductors","title":{"rendered":"Tapping the power of AI and high-performance computing to extend evolution to superconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tapping-the-power-of-ai-and-high-performance-computing-to-extend-evolution-to-superconductors3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Owners of thoroughbred stallions carefully breed prizewinning horses over generations to eke out fractions of a second in million-dollar races. Materials scientists have taken a page from that playbook, turning to the power of evolution and artificial selection to develop superconductors that can transmit electric current as efficiently as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps counterintuitively, most applied <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superconductors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superconductors<\/a> can operate at high magnetic fields because they contain defects. The number, size, shape and position of the defects within a superconductor work together to enhance the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+current\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric current<\/a> carrying capacity in the presence of a magnetic field. Too many defects, however, can lead to blocking the electric current pathway or a breakdown of the superconducting material, so scientists need to be selective in how they incorporate defects into a material.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study from the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, researchers used the power of artificial intelligence and high-performance supercomputers to introduce and assess the impact of different configurations of defects on the performance of a superconductor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-power-ai-high-performance-evolution-superconductors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of thoroughbred stallions carefully breed prizewinning horses over generations to eke out fractions of a second in million-dollar races. Materials scientists have taken a page from that playbook, turning to the power of evolution and artificial selection to develop superconductors that can transmit electric current as efficiently as possible. Perhaps counterintuitively, most applied superconductors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91265","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}