Re:Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrys...
by datameta on Sunday October 01, 2023 @07:50PM
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What does DFT stand for here, could you disambiguate please? Because I also do DFT but it stands for Design For Test (on microprocessors).
Re:Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrys...
by raziel2701 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @08:15PM
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Density Functional Theory. It's the bread and butter of computational condensed matter physicists and materials science simulations, but are mostly used as simulation to validate experimental results, rarely are predictive.
That being said, even if you did find an interesting band structure with a viable thermodynamic pathway for material synthesis, it says nothing about whether it has a room temperature Tc or some lower Tc. But regardless, it could lead to the discovery of some interesting new high-Tc superconductors. Or nothing, since that's how DFT (and more broadly, basic research) goes.
I'll bet there are labs doing something similar to this now.