{"id":4920,"date":"2010-08-04T08:04:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T08:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/04\/baez-on-leggett-on-high-temper\/"},"modified":"2010-08-04T08:04:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T08:04:48","slug":"baez-on-leggett-on-high-temper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/04\/baez-on-leggett-on-high-temper\/","title":{"rendered":"Baez on Leggett on High-Temperature Superconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the tab open and everything, and still somehow forgot to include a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/29\/high-temperature-superconductivity\/\">John Baez&#8217;s blog post reporting on a talk by Tony Leggett<\/a> which directly addresses some of the questions asked about <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/how_do_superconductors_work.php\">yesterday&#8217;s superconductivity post<\/a>. It&#8217;s about a talk called &#8220;Cuprate superconductivity: the current state of play&#8221; (&#8220;state of play&#8221; apparently being a favorite phrase of Leggett&#8217;s), and directly addresses what&#8217;s weird about high-temperature superconductors and why they haven&#8217;t been explained theoretically.<\/p>\n<p>These are notes from a talk, and thus somewhat compressed, but it&#8217;s a good summary of the situation. Leggett is surprisingly optimistic, too, giving a 50% chance that some students alive today will see room-temperature superconductors in their lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the tab open and everything, and still somehow forgot to include a link to John Baez&#8217;s blog post reporting on a talk by Tony Leggett which directly addresses some of the questions asked about yesterday&#8217;s superconductivity post. It&#8217;s about a talk called &#8220;Cuprate superconductivity: the current state of play&#8221; (&#8220;state of play&#8221; apparently&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/04\/baez-on-leggett-on-high-temper\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baez on Leggett on High-Temperature Superconductors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,19,7,11,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-condensed_matter","category-experiment","category-physics","category-science","category-theory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}