Can room temperature superconductivity be reached
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61173/kyg8n425Keywords:
Superconducting, normal temperature and pressure, new materialsAbstract
In 1911, scientists first discovered the phenomenon of superconductivity. For more than a century after that, physicists have been committed to the development of new superconducting materials for industrial production and daily life. However, up to now, almost all superconducting materials need to be superconducting under strict pressure and temperature conditions, which greatly limits their application. Therefore, finding the new superconducting materials make it possible to achieve superconducting properties under normal temperature and pressure conditions close to the room, which has become a dream of physicists and material scientists, and it is also an event that the community is eager to pay attention to. So, in the near future, can room temperature superconductivity be achieved? Can it improve human production and life on a large scale? Therefore, this study first reviews the research history of superconducting theory, summarizes and analyzes several popular superconducting materials at present, and analyzes the possibility of applying room temperature superconductivity to production and life, considering the perspective of theory and material combination. The analysis process and results of this paper can play a scientific popularization role for the public concerned about room temperature superconductors and can also be used as an introductory material to help college students interested in superconductors quickly enter the subject.
References
McMillan, W. L. (1968). Transition temperature of strong-
Bardeen, J., Cooper, L. N., & Schrieffer, J. R. (1957). Theory of coupled superconductors. Physical Review, 167(2), 331. superconductivity. Physical review, 108(5), 1175. M e n g , W. A . N . G . ( 2 0 2 3 ) . D i s c o v e r y o f h i g h - T c
Bednorz, J. G., & Müller, K. A. (1986). Possible high T c superconductivity in a nickelate. PHYSICS, 52(10), 663-671.
superconductivity in the Ba− La− Cu− O system. Zeitschrift für Onnes, H.K. (1911) The Superconductivity of Mercury. Comm. Physik B Condensed Matter, 64(2), 189-193. Phys. Lab. Univ., Leiden, 122-124.
Berger A. (2002). Magnetic resonance imaging. BMJ Snider, E., Dasenbrock-Gammon, N., McBride, R., Debessai, (Clinical research ed.), 324(7328), 35. https://doi.org/10.1136/ M., Vindana, H., Vencatasamy, K., ... & Dias, R. P. (2020). bmj.324.7328.35 RETRACTED ARTICLE: Room-temperature superconductivity Boixo, S., Isakov, S. V., Smelyanskiy, V. N., Babbush, R., Ding, in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride. Nature, 586(7829), 373-377.
N., Jiang, Z., ... & Neven, H. (2018). Characterizing quantum Sharma, M. M., Sharma, P., Karn, N. K., & Awana, V. P. S.
supremacy in near-term devices. Nature Physics, 14(6), 595-600. (2022). Comprehensive review on topological superconducting
Chen, X., Dai, P., Feng, D., Xiang, T., & Zhang, F. C. (2014). materials and interfaces. Superconductor Science and Iron-based high transition temperature superconductors. National Technology, 35(8), 083003. Science Review, 1(3), 371-395. Sun, H., Huo, M., Hu, X., Li, J., Liu, Z., Han, Y., ... & Wang, M.
Dias, R. P., & Silvera, I. F. (2017). Observation of the Wigner- (2023). Signatures of superconductivity near 80 K in a nickelate Huntington transition to metallic hydrogen. Science, 355(6326), under high pressure. Nature, 621(7979), 493-498. 715-718. Takahashi, H., Igawa, K., Arii, K., Kamihara, Y., Hirano, M., &
Gao, L., Xue, Y. Y., Chen, F., Xiong, Q., Meng, R. L., Ramirez, Hosono, H. (2008). Superconductivity at 43 K in an iron-based
D., ... & Mao, H. K. (1994). Superconductivity up to 164 K in layered compound LaO1-xFxFeAs. nature, 453(7193), 376-378.
HgBa 2 Ca m− 1 Cu m O 2 m+ 2+ δ (m= 1, 2, and 3) under Tiege Zhou. (2019). Mechanism of high temperature quasihydrostatic pressures. Physical Review B, 50(6), 4260. superconductivity: the BCS theory and a new electron pairing Ge, J. F., Liu, Z. L., Liu, C., Gao, C. L., Qian, D., Xue, Q. K., medium. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3551189 ... & Jia, J. F. (2015). Superconductivity above 100 K in single- Zhang, W., Liu, G., Meng, J., Zhao, L., Liu, H., Dong, X., ... &
layer FeSe films on doped SrTiO 3. Nature materials, 14(3), 285- Zhou, X. J. (2008). High energy dispersion relations for the high 289. temperature Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 superconductor from laser-
Hoddeson, L. (2002). True genius: the life and science of John based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Physical Bardeen: the only winner of two Nobel Prizes in physics. review letters, 101(1), 017002.
Kamihara, Y., Watanabe, T., Hirano, M., & Hosono, H. (2008). Zhi-An, R., Wei, L., Jie, Y., Wei, Y., Xiao-Li, S., Guang-Can,
Iron-based layered superconductor La [O1-x F x] FeAs (x= 0.05− C., ... & Zhong-Xian, Z. (2008). Superconductivity at 55 K in 0.12) with T c= 26 K. Journal of the American Chemical Society, iron-based F-doped layered quaternary compound Sm [O1-xFx] 130(11), 3296-3297. FeAs. Chinese Physics Letters, 25(6), 2215.
Keesom, W. H., & Kok, J. A. (1934). Measurements of the Zhongxian, Z., & Liguan, C. (1987). superconductivity Above specific heat of thallium at liquid helium temperatures. Physica, Liquid Nitrogen Temperature in Ba-Y-Cu Oxides. Kexue 1(1-6), 175-181. Tongbao, (6). Li, D., Lee, K., Wang, B. Y., Osada, M., Crossley, S., Lee, H. R., Zhu, Y., Liao, M., Zhang, Q., Xie, H. Y., Meng, F., Liu, Y., ... ... & Hwang, H. Y. (2019). Superconductivity in an infinite-layer & Xue, Q. K. (2021). Presence of s-wave pairing in Josephson nickelate. Nature, 572(7771), 624-627. junctions made of twisted ultrathin Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+ x
Luo, H. Q. (2021). Room-temperature superconductivity may be flakes. Physical Review X, 11(3), 031011. achieved. Scientia Sinica Physica, Mechanica & Astronomica,
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 by the authors.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
