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Seems there is new support that its legit! https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1686215574177841152 https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1686215574177841152 Nat
by redm 3y ago
Seems there is new support that its legit!
https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1686215574177841152 https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1686215574177841152
National Lab (LBNL) results support LK-99 as a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor.
Simulations published 1 hour ago on arxiv support LK-99 as the holy grail of modern material science and applied physics.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892 https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892
- FredFS456 3y agoHN thread on this preprint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951815 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951815
- whimsicalism 3y agoI worked in this field and imo these preliminary DFT results do not actually mean that much. I do not believe the comments on that other thread are from other practitioners given how confident in this DFT results they seem, when DFT is notoriously unreliable especially when funky correlated things might be going on.
- carabiner 3y agoYes CMTC has said that this preprint changes nothing. The author's mic drop gif is a bit... premature.
- fnands 3y agoYeah, I would class it as encouraging, but far from definitive. But at least it shows that there might be some theoretical basis to it. It might be useful (as jboggan mentioned in another thread) in explaining why reproduction could be difficult; it seems to be a finicky material to create.
- whimsicalism 3y agoOh yes, I also don’t think this reproduction failure is a strong signal either. It is super finicky usually in practice