<story><title>Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raziel2701</author><text>Man, I&amp;#x27;m feeling stronger about LK-99 being it. This paper is theoretical and she finds that particular Cu substitutions onto specific Pb atomic sites are key to enabling a band structure that is usually linked to high Tc superconductors.&lt;p&gt;What this means for the more practical minded is that the synthesis of superconducting LK-99 is not trivial and you need to make the appropriate substitutional alloy for this to work.&lt;p&gt;This is a DFT paper, and a band structure that is usually seen in high Tc superconductors just naturally came out. She also talks about the strong electron-phonon coupling that naturally arose from the structure, which is always necessary for superconductivity.&lt;p&gt;I am, by far, the most excited I&amp;#x27;ve ever been about this being a RT, ambient pressure superconductor.</text></comment>
<story><title>Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99</title><url>https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bacon_waffle</author><text>This paper is by someone from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who has run some simulations of LK99 and found features that are associated with high temperature superconductors.&lt;p&gt;In the last paragraph before acknowledgements, they point to a feature that could make synthesis difficult, then conclude with &amp;quot;Nevertheless, I expect the identification of this
new material class to spur on further investigations of
doped apatite minerals given these tantalizing theoretical
signatures and experimental reports of possible high-TC
superconductivity.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m a high school dropout, worked for a physics project once)</text></comment>