The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) made worldwide news when they reached nuclear fusion ignition in December 2022 but they went beyond that result on July 30, 2023. I am attending the 2023 International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications where there have been numerous presentations by leaders of …
Computational physicists have a new paper that says if we made better LK99 samples with mostly high-symmetry phase then it would make the claimed room-temperature superconductors at ambient pressure. All the experimental attempts to replicate LK99 room temperature superconductors have not worked. However, the attempts at replication have been for bulk samples of copper doped …
Chinese researchers have proposed a theory for understanding the LK99 superconductor. This paper assumes the south Korean LK99 claims are correct for critical temperature and critical current. The conventional superconducting mechanisms and theories (BCS and BR-BCS) used to understand other superconductors would not explain LK99. LK99 has the apparent contradiction between an extremely high critical …
Hyun Tak Kim and other members of the original korean LK99 room temperature superconducting team should have an American Institute of Physics Materials journal paper published in about 3 to 5 weeks. They submitted a version and have been asked to make revisions. The key information that I would like to see is verified or …
Kings College of London and University of Colorado researchers looked at LK99 by going beyond density function theory analysis with a different analytic approach. They looked at electron and hole doping, within the QSGW (quasiparticle self-consistent GW ) framework. They conclude that while LK99 might or might not be superconducting, it has interesting properties that …
The Chinese navy is reportedly testing the planet’s most powerful coil gun which can accelerate a 124kg projectile in a firing test to a speed of 700km/h in less than 0.05 seconds. It was the heaviest known projectile to be used in a coil gun experiment. A normal torpedo move at 58 mph and have …
Indian researcher, VPS Awana, says that using Scanning Tunneling Microscopes, that samples of LK99 possibly room temperature superconducting material could have superconductivity measured. Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy systems cost about $20,000 to $200,000. They are common and such systems are in India and at Universities and companies around the world. This will only work on LK99 …
The Muon g-2 Collaboration has doubled the precision of their 2021 measurement of the muon’s magnetic moment and it disagrees with the predictions based on the standard model of physics. Muons are similar to electrons, but 207 times more massive. They are also unstable: they are created in particle collisions and decay into their lighter …
Vinod M. Menon and his research group at The City College of New York shows that trapping light inside magnetic materials may dramatically enhance their intrinsic properties. Strong optical responses of magnets are important for the development of magnetic lasers and magneto-optical memory devices, as well as for emerging quantum transduction applications. The properties of …
The original peer reviewed LK99 superconductor paper only briefly mentions the thin film work and measurements but this is the most important part as only the chemical vapor deposited thin film has the zero resistance superconducting measurement. The original team has said they will produce a new peer reviewed by the end of August or …
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