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Re:Physicists discover new quantum electronic material by idanman on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @09:35AM (#16628378)
Not quite. The paper cited above [0] Figure 2 pg 17 shows conductivity as a function of temperature. A superconductor has a flat part of the conductivity at low temperature here they have not reached it. There is no transition [1]. The do say on page 8 of [0]: "Extending this approach to stabilize the dispersionless states similarly expected from the kagome network adds an exciting prospect for increasing correlations and enabling the study of magnetically driven fractionalization of states" So it may be a possibility in the future.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10007 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity

Re:Physicists discover new quantum electronic material by garmaine on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @01:29PM (#16630650)
Thank you for finding the source. Looks like this was inaccurate / ambiguous reporting. Still a great discovery for what it is.