Superconductor Pb_10-xCu_x(PO₄)₆O showing levitation at room temperature and atmospheric pressure and mechanism

2023/07/22 by S.R. Lee, Sukbae Lee, Jihoon Kim +11 · 4 voices · 2 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat.supr-con

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2307.12037

openalex publication_date 2023/07/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

A material called LK-99, a modified-lead apatite crystal structure with the composition Pb_10-xCu_x(PO₄)₆O (0.9

Cited by

• LK-99 [wikipedia]
• Room-temperature superconductor [wikipedia]

Discussions

• Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2 [hn, 476 points, 290 comments]
• Also this one from the same authors (plus 3 more): https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037. My opinion: [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]
• Superconductor Pb10−xCux(PO4)6O showing levitation at room temperature [hn, 4 points, 3 comments]
• 논문이 나눠서 여러 편 나오는 모양인데… 설명이나 이론이 일관된 느낌은? 아니네요? 냉정하게 초전도에 대해서 전문가들은 아닌 것 같음 ㅎ https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037 [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]

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