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Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane

74 points by sbulaev 2mo ago

oliculipolicula 2mo ago
That was fun but this is gun? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03375-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03375-4 The two teams could "synergize" their tacit knowledge, overcome "involution"? Without open peer review like in the old days it's hard, even with frontier models, for nonexperts to know if the above breakthrough was (unfairly?) relegated or how significant TFA is truly
- RenSoft 2mo ago
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- dgellow 2mo ago
  In that case you can ignore the article, if it is really significant for layman you will see more articles in the coming weeks/months with simpler explanations
- BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
  > open peer review like in the old days it's hard I'm not sure the old days ever had that.
iandanforth 2mo ago
The writing here seems very odd. It reads like a product announcement or blog page, not an article in Nature. I'm left questioning its validity.
- pama 2mo ago
  Hmm. I didn’t get that impression from a quick skim. Just curious: what makes you think that?
  - kzrdude 2mo ago
    I would guess it's the 'vast' and the 'unprecedented' for example.
    - gestalt1 2mo ago
      Maybe just a combination of academic jargon and English not being the authors first language? At this point I would also not be surprised if language models are used for writing abstracts.
      - p-e-w 2mo ago
        This is Nature. If they stopped doing editorial work regarding writing style, and use LLMs to generate abstracts, it seems they have outlived their usefulness.
        lazide 2mo ago
        New here?
    - scythe 2mo ago
      The cause of anomalous (>40 K) high superconducting transition temperatures in mixed copper (III) oxides is one of the most, if not the most, intensively studied questions in condensed-matter physics. If the researchers believe their experimental system can answer those questions, "vast" and "unprecedented" would be appropriate.
- ironqcold 2mo ago
  I noticed that too.The writing style itself seems a bit strange. I'm not deep into superconductors, so I can't judge the science itself but I have doubts about how much trust this article can give.
gavinray 2mo ago
> "a single layer of Bi2Sr2CuO6+δ (Bi-2201)" I did not realize one could learn how much chemistry they did not know from a single name. "+δ" is one I've never seen before.
- oliculipolicula 2mo ago
  https://condensedconcepts.blogspot.com/2012/05/characteristics-of-optimal-doping-in.html?m=1 https://condensedconcepts.blogspot.com/2012/05/characteristi...
  - Modified3019 2mo ago
    Wow, now that’s an amazing blog, thanks for linking it.
- pfdietz 2mo ago
  The material is doped by varying the overall oxidation state of the copper, which is balanced by the number of oxygen ions.
  - gimmeThaBeet 2mo ago
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bluepoint 2mo ago
Is this paper in arxiv?

74 points by sbulaev 2mo ago

That was fun but this is gun? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03375-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03375-4 The two teams could "synergize" their tacit knowledge, overcome "involution"? Without open peer review like in the old days it's hard, even with frontier models, for nonexperts to know if the above breakthrough was (unfairly?) relegated or how significant TFA is truly

RenSoft 2mo ago
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dgellow 2mo ago
In that case you can ignore the article, if it is really significant for layman you will see more articles in the coming weeks/months with simpler explanations
BigTTYGothGF 2mo ago
> open peer review like in the old days it's hard I'm not sure the old days ever had that.

iandanforth 2mo ago

The writing here seems very odd. It reads like a product announcement or blog page, not an article in Nature. I'm left questioning its validity.

pama 2mo ago
Hmm. I didn’t get that impression from a quick skim. Just curious: what makes you think that?
- kzrdude 2mo ago
  I would guess it's the 'vast' and the 'unprecedented' for example.
  - gestalt1 2mo ago
    Maybe just a combination of academic jargon and English not being the authors first language? At this point I would also not be surprised if language models are used for writing abstracts.
    - p-e-w 2mo ago
      This is Nature. If they stopped doing editorial work regarding writing style, and use LLMs to generate abstracts, it seems they have outlived their usefulness.
      - lazide 2mo ago
        New here?
  - scythe 2mo ago
    The cause of anomalous (>40 K) high superconducting transition temperatures in mixed copper (III) oxides is one of the most, if not the most, intensively studied questions in condensed-matter physics. If the researchers believe their experimental system can answer those questions, "vast" and "unprecedented" would be appropriate.
ironqcold 2mo ago
I noticed that too.The writing style itself seems a bit strange. I'm not deep into superconductors, so I can't judge the science itself but I have doubts about how much trust this article can give.

gavinray 2mo ago

> "a single layer of Bi2Sr2CuO6+δ (Bi-2201)" I did not realize one could learn how much chemistry they did not know from a single name. "+δ" is one I've never seen before.

oliculipolicula 2mo ago
https://condensedconcepts.blogspot.com/2012/05/characteristics-of-optimal-doping-in.html?m=1 https://condensedconcepts.blogspot.com/2012/05/characteristi...
- Modified3019 2mo ago
  Wow, now that’s an amazing blog, thanks for linking it.
pfdietz 2mo ago
The material is doped by varying the overall oxidation state of the copper, which is balanced by the number of oxygen ions.
- gimmeThaBeet 2mo ago
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bluepoint 2mo ago

Is this paper in arxiv?