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I read the paper, they're interpreting their results in the most fashionable way possible to get published, which is that maybe they're exciting K3C60 into a su
by raziel2701 11y ago
I read the paper, they're interpreting their results in the most fashionable way possible to get published, which is that maybe they're exciting K3C60 into a superconducting state. Of course this state is transitory. Essentially they shoot light into it and they excite a state, and they say that this state is a superconducting one. Of course since it's a non-equilibrium state the system quickly relaxes into a non-superconducting one. The authors are completely aware that other interpretations could also explain what they see, but of course the sexiest one is to guess that it's a superconducting state, triggered by light, at a temperature higher than K3C60 Tc ~ 20 K.
So, nothing solid, just some data, and a very fanciful interpretation of this in order to create excitement.