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→First tangible use of quantum mechanics in superconductivity: Neither the article cited here, nor the original paper say anything about "syncing" of electron spins, and this also is not really what entanglement means, and entanglement between the electons in these sites is not even what is being proposed in the original paper, nor the one that is cited here. The proposed mechanism is of tunneling between SQWs. Entanglement isn't referred to at all..
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=== First tangible use of quantum mechanics in superconductivity ===
=== First tangible use of quantum mechanics in superconductivity ===
One of the main differences the SK team claims their superconductor has is that its internal structure is small enough to create [[Quantum well|Quantum wells]] between the lead and oxygen in its structure. This would allow for electron tunneling between the wells, increasing the potential for quantum entanglement between electrons, syncing the spins. Having the spins synced in a superconductor allows the electrons to act as pure energy instead of individual particles, creating superconductive materials at room temperature<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-27 |title=Possibly the Beginning of Quantum Well Superconductors {{!}} NextBigFuture.com |url=https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/07/the-beginning-of-quantum-well-superconductors.html |access-date=2023-08-01 |language=en-US}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=August 2023}}. However, this is widely critiqued by other quantum physicists and engineers.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}
One of the main differences the SK team claims their superconductor has is that its internal structure is small enough to create [[Quantum well|Quantum wells]] between the lead and oxygen in its structure. This would allow for electron tunneling between the wells, which could explain the superconductivity that they observe.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-27 |title=Possibly the Beginning of Quantum Well Superconductors {{!}} NextBigFuture.com |url=https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/07/the-beginning-of-quantum-well-superconductors.html |access-date=2023-08-01 |language=en-US}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=August 2023}}


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LK-99

3D structure
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
  • InChI=1S/Cu.6H3O4P.O.9Pb/c;6*1-5(2,3)4;;;;;;;;;;/h;6*(H3,1,2,3,4);;;;;;;;;;/q+2;;;;;;;-2;9*+2/p-18
    Key: KZSIWLDFTIMUEG-UHFFFAOYSA-A
  • [Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Cu+2].O=P([O-])([O-])[O-].O=P([O-])([O-])[O-].O=P([O-])([O-])[O-].O=P([O-])([O-])[O-].O=P([O-])([O-])[O-].O=P([O-])([O-])[O-].[O-2]
Properties
CuO25P6Pb9
Molar mass 2514.2 g·mol−1
Appearance grey black solid
Density ≈6.699 g/cm3[1]
Structure
hexagonal
P63/m, No. 176
a = 9.843 Å, c = 7.428 Å
623.2 Å3
1
Related compounds
Related compounds
 Oxypyromorphite (lead apatite)
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

LK-99 is a potential room-temperature superconductor with a gray‒black appearance.[2]: 8  It has a hexagonal structure slightly modified from lead‒apatite, by introducing small amounts of copper. The material was first discovered and manufactured by a team of researchers including Sukbae Lee (이석배), and Ji-Hoon Kim (김지훈) from Korea University (고려대학교; KU).[2]: 1  The team claims it functions as a superconductor at ambient pressure and below 400 K (127 °C; 260 °F).[3][2]: 1 

As of 1 August 2023, the material has not been confirmed to be superconducting at any temperature. The synthesis of LK-99 and observation of its superconductivity have not been peer reviewed or independently replicated.[4] The announcement was widely shared and the reaction by the scientific world was mainly skeptical due to the extraordinary nature of the claims,[5] and errors and inconsistencies in the pre-published papers. Independent teams are attempting to replicate the South Korean team's work, with results expected in August 2023 owing to the straightforward method of producing the material.[5]

The initial studies announcing the discovery were uploaded to arXiv. Lee claimed that the uploaded preprint papers were incomplete,[6] while coauthor Hyun-Tak Kim (김현탁) stated that one of the papers contained defects.[7]

Chemical properties

The chemical composition of LK-99 is approximately Pb9Cu(PO4)6O such that—compared to pure lead-apatite (Pb10(PO4)6O)[8]: 5 —approximately one quarter of Pb(II) ions in position 2 of the apatite structure are replaced by Cu(II) ions.[2]: 9 

Synthesis

Lee et al. provide a method for chemical synthesis of LK-99 material[8]: 2  by producing lanarkite from a 1:1 molar mixing of lead(II) oxide (PbO) and lead(II) sulfate (Pb(SO4)) powders, then heating at 725 °C (1,000 K; 1,340 °F) for 24 hours:

PbO + Pb(SO4) → Pb2(SO4)O

Additionally, copper(I) phosphide (Cu3P) was produced by mixing copper (Cu) and phosphorus (P) powders in a 3:1 molar ratio in a sealed tube under a vacuum and heated to 550 °C (820 K; 1,000 °F) for 48 hours:[8]: 3 

Cu + P → Cu3P

Lanarkite and copper phosphide crystals were ground into a powder, placed in a sealed tube under a vacuum, and heated to 925 °C (1,200 K; 1,700 °F) for between 5‒20 hours:[8]: 3 

Pb2(SO4)O + Cu3P + O2 (g) → Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O + S (g), where (0.9 < x < 1.1)

Physical properties

(a) Diamagnetic susceptibility measurements of LK-99, (b) sample of LK-99 partially levitating over large magnet

The material is claimed to be a room-temperature superconductor.[8]: 1  An article shows the material exhibiting strong diamagnetic properties, with a published video depicting a sample of the material partially levitating on top of a large magnet.[8]

Proposed mechanism for superconductivity

Partial replacement of Pb2+ ions (measuring 133 picometres) with Cu2+ ions (measuring 87 picometres) is said to cause a 0.48% reduction in volume, creating internal stress inside the material.[2]: 8  The internal stress is claimed to cause a heterojunction quantum well between the Pb(1) and oxygen within the phosphate ([PO4]3−) generating a superconducting quantum well (SQW).[2]: 10 

Lee et al. claim to show LK-99 exhibits a response to a magnetic field (potentially due to the Meissner effect) when chemical vapor deposition is used to apply LK-99 to a non-magnetic copper sample.[2]: 4  Pure lead-apatite is an insulator, but Lee et al. claim copper-doped lead-apatite forming LK-99 is a superconductor, or at higher temperatures, a metal. [8]: 5  They do not claim to have observed any change in behavior across a transition temperature.[citation needed]

The paper's mechanisms were based on a 2021 paper[9] by Hyun-Tak Kim describing a BR-BCS theory of superconductivity where the BR term comes from a 1970 classical work[10] by W.F Brinkam and T.M. Rice and BCS term comes from the standard Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer theory of superconductivity; nevertheless, the paper is far from mainstream physics, currently having fewer than 10 citations, and being published in Scientific reports, a journal with a lax peer review and a history of controversial papers. They also use ideas from the theory of hole superconductivity[11] by J.E.Hirsch, another work of controversial nature.

On 1 August 2023, Sinéad Griffin of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory published a preprint analyzing the reported structure of LK-99 with density functional theory and the Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package. This analysis suggested a potential mechanism for copper-substituted lead apatite to develop correlated isolated flat bands, a common signature of high-transition-temperature superconductors.[12]

First tangible use of quantum mechanics in superconductivity

One of the main differences the SK team claims their superconductor has is that its internal structure is small enough to create Quantum wells between the lead and oxygen in its structure. This would allow for electron tunneling between the wells, which could explain the superconductivity that they observe.[13][unreliable source?]

Compound name

The name LK-99 is from the initials of discoverers Suk-bae Lee and Ji-hoon Kim, and the year of discovery (1999).[14] The pair had originally been working with Professor Tong-Shik Choi (최동식) at Korea University in the 1990s.[15]

In 2008, researchers from Korea University founded the Quantum Energy Research Centre (퀀텀 에너지연구소; also known as Q-Centre).[6] Lee would later become CEO of Q-Centre, and Kim would become director of research and development (R&D) at Q-Centre.

When Tong-Shik Choi died in 2017, he requested in his will that LK-99 research be continued. Q-Centre got new funding in the same year and interest in LK-99 research was renewed in 2018.[citation needed]

Publication history

An initial paper was submitted to Nature in 2020, but rejected.[15] Similarly-presented research on room-temperature superconductors by Ranga P. Dias had been published in Nature earlier that year, and received with skepticism—Dias's paper would subsequently be retracted in 2022 after its data was found to have been falsified.[16]

Suk-bae Lee and Ji-hoon Kim filed a patent application in 2021 which was published on 3 March 2023.[17] A Korean trademark application for "LK-99" was filed on 4 April 2023 by the Q-Centre.[18]

A series of academic publications summarizing initial findings came out in 2023, with a total of seven authors across four publications. The first publication appeared on arXiv on 22 July, listing Young-Wan Kwon, former Q-Centre CTO, as third author. A second preprint listed as third author Hyun-Tak Kim, former principal researcher at the Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute and professor at the College of William & Mary.

The findings were submitted to APL Materials on 23 July 2023 for peer review.[15][6]

On 28 July 2023, Kwon presented the findings of the group at a symposium held at Korea University.[19][20][21] That same day, Yonhap News Agency published an article quoting an official from Korea University as saying that Kwon was no longer in contact with the University.[6] The article also quoted Lee saying that Kwon had left the Q-Centre Research Institute four months previously;[6] that the academic papers on LK-99 were not finished; and that the papers had been uploaded to arXiv without the other authors' permission.[6]

Authors

Author credit and affiliation matrix:

Author
Affiliation
 Lee, Sukbae (이석배) Kim, Ji-Hoon (김지훈) Kim, Hyun-Tak (김현탁) Im, Sungyeon (임성연) An, SooMin (안수민) Kwon, Young-Wan (권영완) Auh, Keun Ho (오근호) Choi, Tong-Shik (최동식)
HYU Professor Emeritus
KU‒KIST 'former Research Professor[6]†
W&M Professor
Q-Centre (주)퀀텀에너지연구소 CEO R&D Director Yes Yes 'former CTO[6] CTO
Patent (2020)[22] 1 2
Patent (2021)[17] 1 2 3
Lee & Kim+ (2023a)[3] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Acknowledged
Lee & Kim+ (2023b)[2] 1 2 Acknowledged Acknowledged 3 Acknowledged
Lee & Kim+ (2023c)[8] 1 2 3 4 5 Acknowledged 6 Acknowledged

("1" = first author, "2" = second author, etc.)

Response

Materials scientists and superconductor researchers responded with skepticism.[7] The highest-temperature superconductors known at the time of publication had a critical temperature of 250 K (−23 °C; −10 °F) at pressures of over 170 gigapascals (1,680,000 atm; 24,700,000 psi). The highest-temperature superconductors at atmospheric pressure (1 atm) had a critical temperature of at most 150 K (-123 ℃; -189 ℉).

One of the strongest criticisms comes from the quantum aspect of the electrons running through the superconductor.[23] Both electrons having the same spin is necessary for the electrons to function as pure energy with quantum mechanics, and the internal space proposed in LK-99 may not be able to produce the quantum wells that the SK team think it does[24].

As of 1 August 2023, the measured properties do not prove that LK-99 is a superconductor as the published material does not fully explain how the LK-99's magnetisation can change, demonstrate its specific heat capacity, or demonstrate it crossing its transition temperature.[7] An alternative explanation for LK-99's stated partial magnetic levitation could be solely from non-superconductive diamagnetism.[25]

Replication attempts


As of 1 August 2023, the experiment had not been successfully replicated, despite the initial experiments being completed in 2020. After the July 2023 publications release, independent groups reported that they had begun attempting to reproduce the synthesis, with initial results expected within weeks.[5] However while positive results can come quickly, negative results are slow, as "falsification needs to verify all possibilities, and it will take a lot of time."[26]

The first attempts that published results did not observe levitation or diamagnetism, and their samples had high resistivity. A team at Huazhong University of Science and Technology reported producing tiny flakes that showed diamagnetic levitation, on their second attempt. Two other Chinese university teams, at USTC and Qufu, published similar videos of similarly tiny flakes. None produced enough to test resistivity, flux pinning, or specific heat.

Group Country Status Result References Notes
Huazhong University of Science and Technology China Results unavailable 8/1: Video showing diamagnetism of small (sub-millimeter) flakes of LK-99.

Due to the small size of the sample, making a third batch to attempt to measure resistance.

[27][28] Post-doctorate Wu Hao, Doctoral Yang Li, Professor Chang Haixin
Beihang University China Preliminary results available No levitation or diamagnetism observed. High resistivity measurements taken not consistent with superconductivity. [29] Li Liu, et al. arXiv.
Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research - National Physical Laboratory of India (CSIR-NPLI) India Preliminary results available No levitation or diamagnetism observed, plausibly due to challenging Cu doping. Structure confirmed by XRD. [30] Kapil Kumar, et al. Verified authors,[31][32] arXiv.
Southeast University China Preliminary results available No diamagnetism or levitation observed. [33][26] Prof. Sun Yue, et al.
Argonne National Laboratory United States Un­known — [34]
Nanjing University China Un­known — [35]
Collège de France - Solid State Chemistry and Energy Lab France Partial failure Meissner effect not observed in quenched sample.[36] Second sample and X-ray analysis in progress.[37] [38][39][40][original research] PhD student on Twitter, in the lab of Jean-Marie Tarascon.
Varda Space Industries & University of Southern California United States Un­known — [41][original research] Engineer & entrepreneur on Twitter.

Theoretical studies

In the initial papers, the theoretical explanations for potential mechanisms of superconductivity in LK-99 were incomplete. Later analyses by other labs have added further simulations and theoretical evaluations of the material's electronic properties from first principles.

Group Country Status Result References Notes
Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science (SYNL) China Theoretical study available First-principles study of the electronic structure of LK-99 and other variants. Expresses no opinion on room-temp superconductivity, but suggests gold-doped apatite may have stronger effects. [42] Junwen Lai, et al., arXiv.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory United States Theoretical study available Density Functional Theory calculations on a simplified 3D structure support electronic structure potentially favorable for superconductivity, as well as small decrease in the lattice constants due to inclusion of Cu. [12][43] Sinéad Griffin, arXiv.

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