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This would be a difficult to believe coincidence if diamagnetism and superconductivity were unrelated physical properties, but they are not.


The hard part is that people have already tried really hard to make and measure a superconductor in the LK-99 system, and these researchers have once again gotten close, but not succeeded. There is some precedent for this: one of the highest-temperature superconductors is two-dimensional iron selenide supported on strontium titanate, which superconducts at 100 K, while the bulk iron selenide superconductivity is a measly 8 K at normal pressure (38 K under pressure). At this point, the most plausible way that superconductivity could be occurring in the LK-99 system is if it's in a metastable or nanostructured (possibly two-dimensional) phase that doesn't like to or can't exist as a uniform bulk material.




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