Superconductivity

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• BEIJING, Oct. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Professor Qikun Xue, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor at Tsinghua University, and president of Southern University of Science and Technology, has been awarded the 2024 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, the first physicist of Chinese nationality to win this honor.
• This honor belongs to every researcher of the team, and to all Chinese scientists."
• Professor Xue's groundbreaking discoveries have significantly advanced the field of physics, pioneering new pathways for global condensed matter research.
• This discovery, published in a paper released in 2012, challenged the common understanding on high temperature superconductivity and proposed a unique and innovative perspective, manifesting the exploratory spirit of Chinese scientists.

• But first, he and his team would need many more trials to confirm the measurement.
• Their discovery opened up a world of potential scientific applications.
• The century since has seen many advances, but superconductivity researchers today can take lessons from Onnes’ original, Nobel Prize-winning work.

Superconductivity

• A rare quantum effect that allows electrical currents to flow without resistance in superconducting wires, superconductivity allows for a myriad of scientific applications.
• That’s how Onnes’ original work cooling helium to near absolute zero temperature set the stage for his unexpected discovery of superconductivity.

The discovery

• His lab was the first to turn helium from a gas to a liquid by making the gas expand and cool.
• His lab managed to cool helium this way to a temperature of -452 degrees Farenheit (-269 degrees Celsius).
• That date of April 8 is often quoted as the discovery of superconductivity, but the full story isn’t so simple, because scientists can’t accept a scribbled “near-enough null” as sufficient proof of a new discovery.

In pursuit of proof

• On this day, they cooled the cryostat again to -454 F (-270 C) and then let the temperature slowly rise.
• At first they barely measured any electrical resistance, indicating superconductivity.
• On Oct. 26 they repeated the experiment, capturing the earlier sudden rise in resistance.

New frontiers for critical temperatures

• In the decades following Onnes’ discovery, many researchers have explored how metals act at supercooled temperatures and have learned more about superconductivity.
• But if researchers can observe superconductivity only at super low temperatures, it’s hard to make anything useful.
• So, scientists began searching for superconductors that can work at practical temperatures.
• Since then, researchers have observed superconductivity at temperatures as high as -164 F (-109 C), but achieving a room-temperature superconductor has remained elusive.