Interesting. Some people are getting strong diamagnetism at RTP, and now someone is actually seeing zero resistance at a low temperature. I'd take this as mildly positive news. It would be a surprising material if it were a high Tc (only in the LN2 sense) superconductor that is also strongly diamagnetic at room temperature (though I'm not sure if that's more surprising than a RTP superconductor).
It's confusing. You'd expect both to be present or none, it is strange to have a material that is conducting and diamagnetic at room temperature and that shows super conductivity at much lower temperature. You'd expect the diamagnetism to disappear with the superconductivity.
LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's confusing. You'd expect both to be present or none, it is strange to have a material that is conducting and diamagnetic at room temperature and that shows super conductivity at much lower temperature. You'd expect the diamagnetism to disappear with the superconductivity.
Multiple teams have said they had to produce 10 batches just to get one sample with properties worth reporting on. Perhaps the simplest explanation is that different teams are all ending up with different variations of a common material, with different impurities, crystal structure, etc. There's likely a whole zoo of interesting materials here!
There is a good chance that there will be substantial differences between them.
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#83credibility of LK99 claims is very very high. What are the medium term practical implications for all these potential applications?
It seems more and more like it's credible, but that synthesis is going to prove to be the issue. All these repro attempts are having too much success for there to be nothing behind the team's claims.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
increased geopolitical tension
That is an interesting observation and puts words to some thoughts that I've had: if it turns out that this is 'the real thing' and the patent holds up South Korea is suddenly a superpower.
Re: LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K
#85credibility of LK99 claims is very very high. What are the medium term practical implications for all these potential applications?
Start shorting power companies.
Re: LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K
#86> below 110 K It is not room temperature, is it?
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#87Novice question - does a material behaving as a superconductor occur all the sudden like a step function if resistance is plotted against temp and pressure - or does it ease into super conductor behavior? (edit) Also is it resistance (aka if I remember my EE degree correctly), DC only or also impedance where frequency also matters?
Just resistance. Impedance in an ideal BCS superconductor goes roughly as the square of the AC frequency.
Re: LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K
#88Certainly no expert here but if you take the original video and replications at face value it does exhibit strong diamagnetism at room temperature. Superconductors are diamagnetic due to the Meissner effect at their superconducting temperature. This would mean LK99 is a superconductor at low temperature and separately be strongly diamagnetic at room temperature (no Meissner effect if it's not super conducting). Would…
I have seen it posted that diamagnetic materials require multiple magnets stuck together to create field "pockets" (?) for the material to rest in. The few videos of lk99 show it reacting to a singular magnet. A property of superconductors that apparently diamagnetic materials don't have.
It'll react fine to a singular magnet, it just won't be stable enough to levitate - that's why the videos show casing replication of diamagnetism show it standing on end.
Re: LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K
#89> below 110 K It is not room temperature, is it?
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean? If it's only a superconductor below 110K, that's not nearly as significant.
Yes, that's what one team now says: that they have observed super conductivity and that this happens at a much lower temperature than the one claimed by the other team. But it is at ambient pressure and more importantly there are already multiple confirmations of the Meissner effect at room temperature. Besides that this experiment shows some really weird stuff happening at higher temperatures that needs to be explai…