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"It must be squeezed to extremely high pressure, nearly 2.5 million times the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere" I think I'd rather have the low Kelvin supercondu

• achow 7y ago
  For comparison, atmospheric pressure.. - At the center of earth is around 3.6 million atmosphere. - Synthetic diamond needs 34,500 atmosphere. - Deepest point in ocean (Mariana Trench) is at 1,000 atmosphere.
• SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
  Yeah, this seems like it might possibly be not worth the effort. I'm curious as to applications for this - that's a pressure and temperature that's not practical either. I mean, unless intel is really committed to it's 14 nm node.
  • chr1 7y ago
    A group of these superconductors was discovered by a computer simulation [1], they are not meant to be used in technology, but better understanding of mechanism by which superconductors work, and improvements in quantum mechanical simulations may help in the future to create materials where some atoms are squeezed together by the interaction with other atoms in the material instead of external pressure. [1] https://uspex-team.org/en https://uspex-team.org/en