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Given the stark contrast in behavior between their sample and the one described in Lee et al., is this even the same material? Surely while the conductive chara
by a_vanderbilt 3y ago
Given the stark contrast in behavior between their sample and the one described in Lee et al., is this even the same material? Surely while the conductive characteristics can be explained by errors in measurement procedure, why would the behavior in a magnetic field be different? Were the original authors being dishonest? Was the replicated material different? The X-ray analysis seems to support that they are very similar, if not the same. I expect we're going to see more of this over the next week as more Chinese labs manufacture the samples.
- junofan 3y agoDoesn’t look like they did any annealing. Just tableting. The annealed sample was the one that levitated. Maybe that’s the issue.
- a_vanderbilt 3y agoYou raise a good point, that fact slipped by me in my reading of the paper. Maybe that is the problem!