Hackernews posts about LK-99

LK-99 is a novel magnetic material that has garnered significant attention in the scientific community due to its unique properties and potential applications.

  1. Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99 (arxiv.org)
    2408 points by spekcular about 1 year ago | 1199 comments
  2. LK-99 isn’t a superconductor (www.nature.com)
    2145 points by Brajeshwar about 1 year ago | 698 comments
  3. LK-99: Team of Southeast University observed zero resistance below 110 K (twitter.com)
    640 points by thecopy about 1 year ago | 341 comments
  4. Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt (arxiv.org)
    613 points by spekcular about 1 year ago | 255 comments
  5. Huazhong University demonstrates LK-99 diamagnetism (twitter.com)
    593 points by b800h about 1 year ago | 285 comments
  6. LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor (forums.spacebattles.com)
    565 points by fofoz about 1 year ago | 633 comments
  7. Electronic Structure of LK-99 (arxiv.org)
    551 points by spekcular about 1 year ago | 432 comments
  8. Andrew McCalip demonstrates synthesis of LK99 (twitter.com)
    539 points by gabesullice about 1 year ago | 341 comments
  9. Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2 (arxiv.org)
    476 points by lnyan about 1 year ago | 290 comments
  10. Origin of correlated isolated flat bands in LK99 (arxiv.org)
    397 points by lawrenceyan about 1 year ago | 203 comments
  11. Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99? (twitter.com)
    348 points by kochie about 1 year ago | 207 comments
  12. Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples (arxiv.org)
    339 points by platz about 1 year ago | 314 comments
  13. Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99 (www.science.org)
    337 points by carabiner about 1 year ago | 201 comments
  14. LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short (www.nature.com)
    333 points by mfiguiere about 1 year ago | 373 comments
  15. Compilation of claims/reports of LK-99 replication efforts (forums.spacebattles.com)
    313 points by cal85 about 1 year ago | 289 comments
  16. Unconfirmed video showing potential LK-99 sample exhibiting the Meissner effect (twitter.com)
    307 points by dtx1 about 1 year ago | 173 comments
  17. LK-99 research continues, paper says superconductivity could be possible (www.tomshardware.com)
    210 points by nsoonhui 12 months ago | 49 comments
  18. LK-99: Phonon bands, Localized Flat Band Magnetism, Models and Chemical Analysis (drive.google.com)
    164 points by carabiner about 1 year ago | 152 comments
  19. Absence of superconductivity in LK-99 at ambient conditions (arxiv.org)
    142 points by spekcular about 1 year ago | 75 comments
  20. Compilation of Known LK-99 Replication Attempt Claims (forums.spacebattles.com)
    142 points by mhb about 1 year ago | 7 comments
  21. The first experimental support for LK99-type superconductivity (arxiv.org)
    128 points by deyiao 9 months ago | 45 comments
  22. First video of LK-99 Full Levitation, a.k.a. flux-pinning (twitter.com)
    109 points by the_decider about 1 year ago | 2 comments
  23. LK-99 (en.wikipedia.org)
    101 points by bilsbie about 1 year ago | 58 comments
  24. LK-99 crystal verified to be magnetically levitated (with video) (t.bilibili.com)
    70 points by dreamingincode about 1 year ago | 13 comments
  25. Researchers say they’ve replicated LK-99 room temperature superconductor (thequantuminsider.com)
    65 points by stevenjgarner 9 months ago | 27 comments
  26. Four Korean universities evaluated LK-99: “Unable to discover superconductivity” (old.reddit.com)
    58 points by carabiner about 1 year ago | 5 comments
  27. We now believe that the game is over. LK-99 is not a superconductor (twitter.com)
    57 points by m101 about 1 year ago | 81 comments
  28. Upcoming LK-99 paper will reportedly verify the superconductor (technology.inquirer.net)
    57 points by ent101 about 1 year ago | 28 comments
  29. First order transition in [LK-99] containing Cu2S (arxiv.org)
    57 points by iflp about 1 year ago | 13 comments
  30. LK-99 Is the Superconductor of the Summer (www.nytimes.com)
    52 points by redboooook about 1 year ago | 14 comments