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People on the internet want instant gratification on the LK99 room temperature superconductor science. We can hope for this and want this but this science is difficult. I describe in these two videos how difficult but also how important LK99 science is. The positive partial results only happen in about 10% of the experiments where ... Read more

Reviewing the China Southeastern University LK99 preprint paper. They successfully synthesized the compound Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O, and observed the zero resistance above 100 K. However, the Meissner effect has not been observed yet in our samples, which suggests that the superconducting volume is relatively low. They still need more evidences to confirm the superconductivity, and to identify ... Read more

Seoul Economic Daily reports the Quantum Energy Research Institute, the original LK99 developer, has verified samples made by foreign researchers and will make an announcement around the end of August or beginning of Septemeber, 2023. The Seoul Economic Daily reports speculation that the Quantum Energy Research Institute will officially announce the results of the thesis ... Read more

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There are real LK99 Videos and there is an increasing number of fake LK99 room temperature superconductor videos. There are pure video effect fakes and those using strings or wires. However, there are real videos of flakes and pieces with partial levitation. Fake Chinese #LK99 replication Someone claimed to be from University of Science and ... Read more

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RF SQUIDs (radio frequency Superconducting quantum interference device) only need one Josephson junction to work. This is used for magnetic field sensing. It would not need high current or other high performance capabilities. There are two main types of SQUID: direct current (DC) and radio frequency (RF). RF SQUIDs can work with only one Josephson ... Read more

Another one of many groups working to replicate the LK99 room temperature superconductors. 3/4A humbling admission: a mistake in our laboratory logbook led to mixing the first powders in the wrong ratio Such hiccups are part of the scientific journey but rarely reported. Nevertheless, the correct mixture is now in the furnace and we will ... Read more

Andrew McCalip, who works on space manufacturing at Varda Space, has had the most public and possibly first replication of the proposed LK99 superconductor in the United States has made new samples. It is a larger and better sample. Will try to drop a video tomorrow. Can confirm two things. Note this is with a ... Read more

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First video of LK-99 Full Levitation with flux pinning. The video was posted to the Chinese video-sharing site BiliBili and claims to be a highly pure synthesized sample of LK-99. UPDATE- Report that this was faked Update on fake Chinese replication video of #LK99 showing complete levitation The poster has said on their Weibo that ... Read more

Huazhong University of Science and Technology has published a preprint paper on Arxiv that claims successful growth and room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation. The chinese team from HUST has successfully for the first time verify and synthesize the LK-99 crystals which can be magnetically levitated with larger levitated angle than Sukbae Lee's sample at room ... Read more

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Andrew McCalip and Varda had all of the equipment to replicate and used about $500 in material. They seem to be the first in the USA to have a public replication with some partial reported success. They do not have the equipment to characterize the material. They have given it to USC to analyze. They ... Read more

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David Friedberg of the All-in-Podcast is hopeful that LK99 is real and can lead to industrial scale commercial room temperature superconductors. Friedberg estimates that 70% of the energy we produce is lost to heat and friction. However, computer chips and networking without heat problems can mean computers that are 100 to 200 times faster. The ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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Andrew McCalip was one of the first to start on Twitter and Twitch with his LK99 replication effort. This video of the final product seems to be showing some success. It will be further analyzed. Meissner effect or bust: Day 8.5 We made the rocks pic.twitter.com/ygVOATBaHD - Andrew McCalip (@andrewmccalip) August 4, 2023 Pulling LK99 ... Read more

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Iris Alexander used construction grade phosphorous which is often contaminated with sulfur. Iris replicated what seems like a very good flake of LK99 that seems to show a strong Meissner effect. This could be because of Cu2S. Chinese paper on the theory had mentioned the need for another redox dopant (they considered either) Chinese reproduction ... Read more

The Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics (KSSC) told the Korea JoongAng Daily Thursday, that it has skepticism towards the LK99 results. The verification committee includes research institutes from Seoul National University, Korea University, Pohang University of Science and Technology and Sungkyunkwan University. The committee is led by Kim Chang-young, a physics professor at Seoul ... Read more

Joao Pedro de Magalhaes, a professor of molecular biogerontology at the Institute of Inflammation and Aging at the University of Birmingham in England, has calculated how long people can live if there was no aging and disease. The human mortality rate between the ages of 10-20 is when we are not dying from aging and ... Read more

Twitter user @fodagut has an explainer tweet thread on LK99. @fodagut says LK-99 is quite likely a room-temperature superconductor, or if not it points the way towards building one. But LK-99 is not going to be as easy to synthesize as you have been told, and it's going to be a long, long way to ... Read more

The NY Times has some coverage summarizing the excitement and some of the activity around experimental and theoretical LK99 proposed room temperature superconductors. The Condensed Matter Theory Center (CMTC) was created in 2002 by the University of Maryland with the Distinguished University Professor Sankar Das Sarma as its permanent Director. The support for CMTC comes ... Read more

Channai and Canadian researchers presented a theory for LK99 superconductivity. They have presented a couple of scenarios, keeping solid state and quantum chemical constraints in mind and suggested possibility of hot superconductivity via electronic mechanism of doped Spin 1/2 Mott insulator, utilizing broad band Mott localization. Their theory makes use of doped spin- 1/2 doped ... Read more

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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, ... Read more

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Discussion- In conclusion, two canadian researhcers have proposed a minimal two-band model which reproduces the main features of the Cu dzx and dzy flat bands predicted to appear in a copper-substituted lead apatite. They hope the model facilitates the investigation of the fascinating strongly correlated physics which could be hosted by these bands. As a ... Read more

Chinese wikipedia on the Lk-99 proposed room temperature superconductor is showing more experimental and theoretical papers and projects than the english Lk-99 entry. The current consensus on the English page is to not include experiments which don't have any results to show nor have much media coverage. At the moment we haven't listed the Czech ... Read more

Southeast University of Nangjing China have published their preprint to follow their video. They claim to measure zero resistance' which is to say, they measure a resistance as small as possible giving the limitations of their measurement setup. It is difficult to setup a measurement of the sample due to its flaky material properties. The ... Read more

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University Colorado researchers calculated that the class of LK99 material (weak interaction of CopperOxygen, 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 ... Read more

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A team of scientists from the Physics Department of Southeast University, a top university in Nanjing, China, have reported measuring 0 resistance in a sample of LK-99 they synthesized from scratch. Claimed to have synthesized LK-99 and to have measured superconductivity up to a temperature of 110 kelvin. Claimed to have observed an abrupt drop ... Read more

Another Density Function analysis of LK-99 proposed room-temperature superconductor by researchers at Northwest University in China and Tu Wien Austria Physics Institute. They think superconductivity might be possible, but only if LK-99 is doped, and that diamagnetism without superconductivity is unlikely. Liang Sia,b and Karsten Heldb a School of Physics, Northwest University, Xi'an 710127, China ... Read more

Sinead Griffin, Berkeley Lab researcher, published the simulation of LK99 paper. The paper did *not* prove nor give evidence of superconductivity in Cu-apatite. It showed interesting structural and electronic properties that have features common with high-Tc superconductors provided Cu is in the right place. Result 3: The electronic structure of Cu on the Pb(2) does ... Read more

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Professor Michael Fuhrer of Monash University explains the challenges to definitively prove superconductivity. You'd think superconductivity would be easy to detect; it comes with zero electrical resistance, so if you measure resistance, and it's zero, you're done. Unfortunately there are many ways to get fooled. Generally you'll see multiple pieces of evidence for superconductivity in ... Read more

The Condensed Matter Theory Center still needs to see conclusive LK99 Superconductivity evidence. The situation is promising and hopeful but we are not definitively in the age of room temperature superconductors yet. Several groups have made LK99, most impressively in a 'garage' in LA under live streaming, here is the first arXiv-posted 'synthesis', but these ... Read more

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I, Brian Wang, spoke with Randy Kirk about the room temperature superconductor developments and the future of energyo srand electric cars and trucks. Randy asked me about Elon Musk comments about his predicted future shortages. My prediction is that we will go from...an extreme silicon shortage today to...an electricity shortage in two years," Musk said ... Read more

Derek Lowe in the Journal Science is guardedly optimistic at this point. The Shenyang and Lawrence Berkeley calculations are very positive developments. This is by far the most believable shot at room-temperature-and-pressure superconductivity the world has seen so far, and the coming days and weeks are going to be extremely damned interesting. The Fermi level ... Read more