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Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing (www.tomshardware.com)
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Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing::It's been a rough few days in the condensed matter physics realm following claims of the world's first room-temperature superconductor being achieved. However, work to verify and replicate the results

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[โ€“] rambaroo 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No. At least once lab has actually synthesized the material and verified its superconductivity. It is not just simulations.

[โ€“] surfrock66 4 points 2 years ago

A lab in China synthesized a flake of material that behaves the way a superconductor might under a strong magnet, and a separate lab in China made a flake which showed high resistivity. Neither of those qualify for full validation and point to the fact that synthesis has a lot of unknowns that will require more precise doping methods than we have today. This is likely the start of a research path into doped crystals, a path on which a future discovery WILL lead to better conductors that are easy to make.