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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

Another levitating flake of LK-99 superconductor from China. A third levitating LK-99 superconductor replication video has dropped from China https://t.co/mCewSbYD9X Caveat here is that they then measured the resistance and found it to have high resistivity, so more work needs to be done to get both levitation + zero resistance samples pic.twitter.com/Q6OTDjaReI - Floates0x (@floates0x) ... Read more

Under the guidance of Professor Chang Haixin, postdoctoral Wu Hao and doctoral student Yang Li of the School of Materials Science and Technology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology they have successfully verified and synthesized the LK-99 crystal. It can be magnetically levitated for the first time and this is shown on a bilibili ... Read more

Sabine Hossenfelder predicted that the first superconducting replications will fail and then we will never hear of LK-99 and doped Larkanite superconductors again. The first replication failures is correct. However, the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab simulation supporting LK-99 and the Shenyang national lab first principle paper suggesting using gold and silver to dope to make ... Read more

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab simulated this using heavy-duty compute power from the Department of Energy, and looked to see what would happen to the electronic structure' of this material, meaning, what are the available conduction pathways in the material. It turns out that there are conduction pathways for electrons that are in just the right ... Read more

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 ... Read more

Arxiv - Semiconducting transport in Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O sintered from Pb2SO5 and Cu3P Li Liu, Ziang Meng, Xiaoning Wang, Hongyu Chen,Zhiyuan Duan, Xiaorong Zhou, Han Yan, Peixin Qin*, Zhiqi Liu* School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China The very recent claim on the discovery of ambient-pressure room-temperature superconductivity in modified lead-apatite has immediately ... Read more

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If reports that Argonne National Lab has completed synthesis of LK-99, proposed room temperature superconductor from South Korean researchers, are correct then characterization information should be released in 1-3 days. This would be consistent with the expectation that major labs are trying to replicate, falsify and investigate the LK-99 material. Quotes from the Journal Science ... Read more

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Here's an attempt at a summary in a form of a blogpost, AI's tend to ... lose detail but I've tried to work around this, cannot verify 100% since I don't speak Chinese Attempting to Reproduce the Room Temperature Superconductor This highly anticipated experiment has generated... - Alex Volkov - targum.video (@altryne) July 31, 2023 ... Read more

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There are at least a dozen publicly announced or rumored replication efforts. Iris Alexander claims to have replicated and seen some Meissner effect. There is a partial list of the known professional and amateur efforts at replicating the LK-99 superconductor experiments. It is partial because something this potentially huge and this simple will have hundreds ... Read more

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 ... Read more

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The Physics Institute has successfully produced a sample of the LK99 superconductor and replicated its magnetizing qualities. However, the Meissner effect, a key characteristic of superconductors, has yet to be observed. The issue seems to lie in the purity of the superconducting material, which is currently only a few percent. Despite this, the conversation implies ... Read more

Whether LK-99 is superconductor mainly hinges on it having zero resistivity and the work getting confirmed and replicated. This zero resistance was shown in data at a material science conference in Korea yesterday. Still awaiting confirmation and replication which is ongoing by many groups worldwide. pic.twitter.com/3dIaCE3kBT - FittingMechanics (@FittingMechani1) July 28, 2023

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South Korean researchers published papers suggesting they had discovered a room temperature superconductor. However, another paper with resistivity charts shows resistance that is like regular copper. A group in China is reported to have made the LK-99 material and is not getting superconductivity. However, it is early and we are waiting for published results for ... Read more

I think the new regular pressure room temperature superconducting work will prove to be the start of the field of quantum well superconductors. NOTE: The South Korean paper still needs to be replicated and confirmed. Extraordinary claims need a lot of verification and study. The work can be mistaken or wrong. Other researcher are within ... Read more

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South Korea only had 18,988 births in May, 2023 which is the lowest births since the agency started compiling the data in 1981. This was a drop of over 5% from May 2022. The number of deaths in the country moved up 0.2 percent over the period to 28,958, resulting in a natural decrease in ... Read more

Unlike, superconductor research that has extreme temperatures or pressures, the recent LK-99 work by South Korea [Sukbae Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim, Hyun-Tak Kim] has the levitation effect for classic superconductors shown. The YCBO superconductors needed extreme cooling to show this effect. NOTE: Levitation is possible with diamagnets. There is uncertainty if this is just a strong ... Read more

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