Three scientists from the University of Chicago have run the numbers, and they believe there may be a way to make a material that could conduct both electricity and energy with 100% efficiency—never losing any to heat or friction. The breakthrough, published Feb. 18 in Physical Review B, suggests a framework for an entirely new type of matter, which could have very useful technological applications in the real world. Though the prediction is based on theory, efforts are underway to test it experimentally.
We've known about superconductors—a kind of material that can conduct electricity forever with nearly zero loss—for more than a century. But it was only in the last few years that scientists managed to make a similar material in the laboratory which can conduct energy with nearly zero loss, called an exciton condensate.But both superconductors and exciton condensates are tricky materials to make and to keep functioning—partly because scientists don't fully understand how they work and the theory behind them is incomplete. We do know, however, that both involve the action of quantum physics.
It appears that in the right configuration, the two states actually become entangled—a quantum phenomenon in which systems become intangibly linked together. This challenges the conventional notion that the two states are unrelated, and may open a new field of dual exciton and fermion pair condensates. Using some advanced mathematics, they showed that thanks to the quantum entanglement, the dual condensates should theoretically exist even at the macroscopic size—that is, visible to the human eye.
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We've known about superconductors—a kind of material that can conduct electricity forever with nearly zero loss—for more than a century. But it was only in the last few years that scientists managed to make a similar material in the laboratory which can conduct energy with nearly zero loss, called an exciton condensate.But both superconductors and exciton condensates are tricky materials to make and to keep functioning—partly because scientists don't fully understand how they work and the theory behind them is incomplete. We do know, however, that both involve the action of quantum physics.
It appears that in the right configuration, the two states actually become entangled—a quantum phenomenon in which systems become intangibly linked together. This challenges the conventional notion that the two states are unrelated, and may open a new field of dual exciton and fermion pair condensates. Using some advanced mathematics, they showed that thanks to the quantum entanglement, the dual condensates should theoretically exist even at the macroscopic size—that is, visible to the human eye.
Read More: https://phys.org/news/2020-02-scientists-state-electricity-energy-perfectly.html
Read Also: https://phys.org/news/2020-02-physicists-accidentally-state.html
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