{"id":92824,"date":"2019-06-28T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/confirmation-of-old-theory-leads-to-new-breakthrough-in-superconductor-science"},"modified":"2019-06-28T12:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T19:23:24","slug":"confirmation-of-old-theory-leads-to-new-breakthrough-in-superconductor-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/confirmation-of-old-theory-leads-to-new-breakthrough-in-superconductor-science","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation of old theory leads to new breakthrough in superconductor science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/confirmation-of-old-theory-leads-to-new-breakthrough-in-superconductor-science3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phase transitions occur when a substance changes from a solid, liquid or gaseous state to a different state\u2014like ice melting or vapor condensing. During these phase transitions, there is a point at which the system can display properties of both states of matter simultaneously. A similar effect occurs when normal metals transition into superconductors\u2014characteristics fluctuate and properties expected to belong to one state carry into the other.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Harvard have developed a bismuth-based, two-dimensional superconductor that is only one nanometer thick. By studying fluctuations in this ultra-thin material as it transitions into superconductivity, the scientists gained insight into the processes that drive superconductivity more generally. Because they can carry <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+currents\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric currents<\/a> with near-zero resistance, as they are improved, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superconducting+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superconducting materials<\/a> will have applications in virtually any technology that uses electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard scientists used the new technology to experimentally confirm a 23-year-old theory of superconductors developed by scientist Valerii Vinokur from the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phase transitions occur when a substance changes from a solid, liquid or gaseous state to a different state\u2014like ice melting or vapor condensing. During these phase transitions, there is a point at which the system can display properties of both states of matter simultaneously. A similar effect occurs when normal metals transition into superconductors\u2014characteristics fluctuate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92824","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=92824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}