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Re: LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K

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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.

Observed effects which have been given a name != a single universal truth. Just because we have experimental evidence of effects and theoretical explanations for their occurrence prove we actually have defined the underlying phenomenon's which produce the observed effect accurately. The reason we experiment isn't to prove our theories are correct so much as it is to probe where they break down so we can further refine our understanding of the universe. What we are likely seeing here is the result of an organized pattern of atomic nucleii forming a lattice which creates the conditions for the movement of electrons to be easier (or harder) than expected at certain temperatures (with temperature being the property which induces strain on the lattice). This is very crude, but begins to explain the multitude of factors at play here.

Re: LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K

#82

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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!

Yes, I thought that that might be the case from day one. When they wrote that they had only a 10% success rate it was clear that they were not at all in control of sample purity. The big remaining question for me is what happens when they start traveling with the original sample to have another lab test their samples and how those results compare with both the original results and the independently recreated different samples.

There is a good chance that there will be substantial differences between them.

Re: LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K

#83

credibility 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.

Credible? Their claim was “room-temperature superconductivity.”

Re: LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K

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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.

IP laws--should any even apply--won't prevent any state from using this material should the claims be proven true.

Re: LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K

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credibility of LK99 claims is very very high. What are the medium term practical implications for all these potential applications?

Start shorting power companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Re: LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K

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Novice 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?

> (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

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Certainly 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.

That's for levitating a diamagnetic material.

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

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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…

What confirmations?
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