Room-Temperature Superconductivity: Prospects but Challenges
COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited
Abstract
Why do we not have ambient temperature superconductivity and all the benefits it would bring? If the challenge were less than profound, our celebrated industrial research/development approach should have succeeded in achieving this objective already. In fact, however, the unknowns we face with this issue are believed to involve entangled-many-body quantum mechanics beyond the limits of present understanding. We shall review these issues.
*This work was supported by the Center for Emergent Superconductivity, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
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