Serendipitous vs. Systematic Search for Room-temperature Superconductivity

Authors

Armen M. Gulian, Chapman UniversityFollow
Vahan Nikoghosyan, Chapman University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-6-2017

Abstract

This article summarizes the results from a decade of research which began following a serendipitous discovery and continued with a systematic, Edisonian approach. During the serendipitous stage, there were indications of very-high-T_c superconductivity (at about 200–250 K) detected in laser-treated samples of doped strontium ruthenates. The synthesis route that had been used was strongly out of equilibrium. In spite of our intense studies, later, synthetic efforts along a route closer to equilibrium conditions did not reveal high-T_c superconductivity in the new samples, though there were indications of low-T_c superconductivity. Before the arrival of results on nonequilibrium synthetic routes, it is an appropriate time to summarize the results found within the equilibrium routes, analyze potential corollaries of the complex structure of samples within our initial findings, and discuss the next steps of research.

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This article was originally published in Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations volume, volume 5, in 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40509-017-0143-9

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Gulian A.M., Nikoghosyan V.R., Serendipitous vs. systematic search for room-temperature superconductivity, Quantum Stud.: Math. Found., 5, 161–176 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40509-017-0143-9

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