LK-99 Will be a New and Different Type of Superconductor #LK99

LK99 is the proposed room temperature superconductor and IF it is confirmed as a superconductor then it will likely be a new class of superconductor. It is different than the previously known type 1 and type 2 superconductors. We will need to discover more variants than the first lead-apatite copper phosphorous material. This will help …

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Who Are the Business Winners in an LK99 Room Temperature Superconducting World ?

The global superconductivity market was valued at about $8.4 billion in 2022. Magnet resonance imaging (MRI) systems, most of which use Nb-Ti, accounted for about 80% of the total market value. The higher temperature superconductors (YCBO, nitrogen cooled) remained a much smaller market. The LK99 material has not shown the very large current capacity or …

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Chile DFT Analysis of LK-99 Superconductor

Chilean researchers performed a DFT computational analysis of LK-99. Chilean conclusions: The LK-99 material is a Copper-doped lead oxyapatite system. They studied, specifically the system CuPb9(PO4)6O, with two possible arrangements of the Cu atoms, forming a hexagonal or a triangular sublattice. They found the triangular arrangement to be energetically more stable. Regarding the magnetic order, …

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University Colorado Analysis that LK99 Class of Materials Looks Good for High Temperature Superconductors

University Colorado researchers calculated that the class of LK99 material (weak interaction of Copper‒Oxygen, while minimizing hybridization) shows promise for high temperature superconductivity regardless of LK-99 actually working. They found through DFT (Density Function Theory) calculation that flat CuO bands in Cu-doped Pb apatite (LK99) is generally consistent with the statement in that this kind …

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China National Lab Paper Gold Doping LK-99 Will Also Make Superconductors

China Arxiv – First-principles study on the electronic structure of Pb10−xCux(PO4)6O (x=0, 1) Junwen Lai,1, 2, ∗, Jiangxu Li,1, ∗ Peitao Liu,1, † Yan Sun,1, ‡ and Xing-Qiu Chen1 1Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 110016 Shenyang, China. 2School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science …

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Co-Author of LK-99 Room Temperature Superconductors Would Not Make Diamagnetism Mistake

Hyun-Tak Kim wrote a paper on diamagnetic shielding for high temperature superconductors in 2001. Hyun-Tak Kim is one of the six people who wrote the LK-99 room temperature superconductor paper. He is very familiar with diamagnetism. Hyun-Tak was brought in a few years ago when the Korean team knew they needed help to get it …

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Flying to Jupiter in 30 Days at 0.1% of Lightspeed

The Jupiter Observing Velocity Experiment (JOVE) is a solar-powered technology demonstration of rapid flight to outer solar system targets, performing a flyby of the Jovian magnetosphere 30 days after launch. This is achieved using a magnetic drag device to accelerate with the solar wind plasma. This “Wind Rider” propulsion system can potentially also decelerate against …

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High-Temperature Superconductor Cable Will Speed Up Development of Nuclear Fusion

Commonwealth Fusion Systems new high-temperature superconductor (HTS) cable can be engineered into magnets directly applicable to the high magnetic field approach to fusion. The new HTS cable, called VIPER, can carry over fifty thousand amps of current with magnetic fields over 10 Tesla. Some fusion magnets need to turn on and off continually. VIPER was …

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Robust Computational Model for New State of Matter – Strange Metals

Using cutting-edge computational techniques, researchers from the Flatiron Institute in New York City and Cornell University have solved the first robust theoretical model of strange metals. The work reveals that strange metals are a new state of matter. Strange metals share remarkable properties with black holes, opening exciting new directions for theoretical physics. In a …

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Microsoft’s Hunt for a Topological Quantum Computer Qubit

Microsoft is developing Majorana-based topological quantum computer qubits which will be higher-quality and lower error rate qubits. A high-quality hybrid system made of InSb nanowires with epitaxial-grown Al shells has revealed ballistic superconductivity and quantized zero-bias conductance peak. This holds great promise for making the long-sought topological quantum qubits. Theorists have already begun designing solid-state …

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Google’s Quantum Supremacy is a Foundation Where Quantum Systems Were Engineered to Solve Big Problems

The Google team forced themselves to work on the hardest part of quantum computers which is quantum systems engineering. Quantum systems engineering is making everything work together at the same time. The system maintained quantum operation for 200 seconds and they solved a problem in a search space of over ten thousand trillion (10^16) states. …

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