Abstract: A16.00002 : Partial levitation, type-II-superconductor characteristic, at room temperature and atmospheric pressure in PCPOSOS 8:12 AM–8:24 AM
Presenter:
Hyun-Tak Kim
(College of William and Mary)
Authors:
Hyun-Tak Kim
(College of William and Mary)
Sukbae Lee
(QERC in Korea)
Sungyeon Im
(QERC in Korea)
SooMin An
(QERC in Korea)
Keun Ho Auh
(QERC in Korea)
Collaboration:
College of William & Mary, Quantum Energy Research Center in Korea
We synthesized materials, Pb10-xCux(P(O1-ySy)4)6O1-zSz (PCPOSOS), called PCPOSOS, which exhibit superconducting behavior at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. These materials displayed characteristics of a superconductor, including zero resistance, the Meissner effect, and partial levitation when placed on a magnet (arXiv: 2307.12037). The partial levitation is caused by an inhomogeneity in the magnetic field of the magnet and occurred within the range of critical magnetic fields, Hc1 and Hc2. That is, the magnetic field of the magnet increased with going from center to the edge of magnet. The magnet had approximately 2000G at the center and approximately 3,000G at its edge. The levitation occurred near center. This indicates the center of the magnet is close to Hc1. It disappeared between center and the edge near Hc2, with Hc1 being much smaller than Hc2, because the magnetic moment at Hc2 is much smaller than that at Hc1. When the magnet is slightly moved, the levitation returns to its original position. This phenomenon is analyzed as flux pinning, which is typical of a type-II superconductor. Moreover, the quantum-locking phenomenon, characteristic of a Type-I superconductor, may appear. However, we interpret PCPOSOS as a Type-II superconductor. We will show two videos of levitations and two videos of magnets.
Nextbigfuture observes that there does not look like there will be thin film LK99 results at the March, 2024 presentation.
Important Recent LK99 News
Chinese universities and research labs have published experimental evidence in support of LK99 as a room temperature superconductor. The amount of superconducting material that is made in pile of LK99 powder is small. The LK99 needs to have precisely located copper and phosphorous. This leaves one dimensional molecular chains of superconducting material. All previous superconductors have been found to absorb microwaves. It is the nature of superconducting material that they exclude magnetic fields and thus the electronic and magnetic behavior is observed based on interaction with microwaves.
The US military (Air Force Research Lab) gave some small funding to Chapman University to work on thin film LK99. Thin film LK99 is the only form of the materials with reported superconducting levels of low resistance.
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I find it to be extremely unlikely that no part of the US gov is using trained AI models to look at stuff like this.
There MUST be covert data centers running models to look at superconductors — among a multitude of other “edge materials and processes”.
And cryptography.
B’cause other states surely are.
If not, that would represent the hieght of incompetence.
Could be fraud. Perhaps they wanted to get some rich investor to get money for research. Of course they would never deliver and take away money or scam someone to sell him useless patent?
They do sound like cold fusion Andre Rossi fraudsters. But the quantum computers already get very low temperature, and that isn’t fraud, and higher temperature superconducting research will continue.
I would not rule out fraud. They can use this to bait the hook for a mark then not show. Isn’t that how Rossi operated? Promise, fail, promise, fail, promise, find a mark, fail.
The type 1 superconducting is present in thin film only after reading all the available subject material. The thin film research is under a USD $100K research grant. Do not expect any results published from a military grant.
I’m past the point of being excited about the possibility. I’m at the point that I’m ready to assume it’s not but accepting that it could be. I’m ready to wait until the arguments work their way through the process. I think that in the worst case scenario it will yield new insights into material science; why something would have properties that mislead people. It must have some valuable data to be teased out.
The APS!! So they’re doubling down and true believers in what they’ve found so it isn’t likely to be fraud. What’s left is either incompetence or they’ve really found something.
But I’m a fan of Occam’s Razor and frankly they’re going to have to do better than they’ve done so far to persuade the sceptics…
That’s exactly where I’m at right now. It could be, but it could not be. I’m cautiously optimistic.
Let’s hope this is a world-changing event