LK-99

LK-99

3D structure
Identifiers
  • InChI=1S/Cu.6H3O4P.O.9Pb/c;6*1-5(2,3)4;;;;;;;;;;/h;6*(H3,1,2,3,4);;;;;;;;;;/q+2;;;;;;;-2;9*+2/p-18
    Key: KZSIWLDFTIMUEG-UHFFFAOYSA-A
  • [Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Pb+2].[Cu+2].O=P([O-])([O-])[O-].O=P([O-])([O-])[O-].O=P([O-])([O-])[O-].O=P([O-])([O-])[O-].O=P([O-])([O-])[O-].O=P([O-])([O-])[O-].[O-2]
Properties
CuO25P6Pb9
Molar mass 2514.2 g·mol−1
Appearance Purple crystal when pure[1]
Density ≈6.699 g/cm3
Structure
hexagonal
P63/m, No. 176
a = 9.843 Å, c = 7.428 Å
623.2 Å3
1
Related compounds
Related compounds
 Oxypyromorphite (lead apatite)
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
Infobox references

LK-99 (from the Lee-Kim 1999 research)[2] is a gray–black, polycrystalline compound, identified as a copper-doped lead‒oxyapatite. A team from Korea University led by Lee Sukbae (이석배) and Kim Ji-Hoon (김지훈) began studying this material as a potential superconductor starting in 1999.[3]: 1  In July 2023, they published preprints claiming that it acts as a room-temperature superconductor[3]: 8  at temperatures of up to 400 K (127 °C; 260 °F) at ambient pressure.[2][4][3]: 1 

Many different researchers have attempted to replicate the work, and were able to reach initial results within weeks, as the process of producing the material is relatively straightforward.[5] By mid-August 2023, the consensus[1] was that LK-99 is not a superconductor at any temperature, and is an insulator in pure form.[6][7][8]

As of October 1, no replications have gone through the peer-review process of a journal, but some have been reviewed by a materials science lab. A number of replication attempts identified non-superconducting ferromagnetic and diamagnetic causes for observations that suggested superconductivity. A prominent cause was a copper sulfide impurity[9] occurring during the proposed synthesis, which can produce resistance drops, lambda transition in heat capacity, and magnetic response in small samples.[10][11][9][12][13][14][15]

After the initial preprints were published, Lee claimed they were incomplete,[16] and coauthor Kim Hyun-Tak (김현탁) said one of the papers contained flaws.[17]

Chemical properties and structure

The chemical composition of LK-99 is approximately Pb9Cu(PO4)6O, in which— compared to pure lead-apatite (Pb10(PO4)6O)[18]: 5 — approximately one quarter of Pb(II) ions in position 2 of the apatite structure are replaced by Cu(II) ions.[3]: 9 

The structure is similar to that of apatite, space group P63/m (No. 176).

Synthesis

Lee et al. provide a method for chemical synthesis of LK-99[18]: 2  in three steps. First they produce lanarkite from a 1:1 molar mixing of lead(II) oxide (PbO) and lead(II) sulfate (Pb(SO4)) powders, and heating at 725 °C (1,000 K; 1,340 °F) for 24 hours:

PbO + Pb(SO4) → Pb2(SO4)O.

Then, copper(I) phosphide (Cu3P) is produced by mixing copper (Cu) and phosphorus (P) powders in a 3:1 molar ratio in a sealed tube under a vacuum and heated to 550 °C (820 K; 1,000 °F) for 48 hours:[18]: 3 

3 Cu + P → Cu3P.

Then, lanarkite and copper phosphide crystals are ground into a powder, placed in a sealed tube under a vacuum, and heated to 925 °C (1,200 K; 1,700 °F) for between 5‒20 hours:[18]: 3 

Pb2(SO4)O + Cu3P → Pb10-xCux(PO4)6O + S (g), where 0.9 < x < 1.1.

There were a number of problems with the above synthesis from the initial paper. The reaction is not balanced, and others reported the presence of copper(I) sulfide (Cu2S) as well.[19][11] For a balanced reaction might be:

5 Pb2SO4O + 6 Cu3P → Pb9Cu(PO4)6O + 5 Cu2S + Pb + 7 Cu.[20]

Many syntheses produced fragmentary results in different phases, where some of the resulting fragments were responsive to magnetic fields, other fragments were not.[21] The first synthesis to produce pure crystals found them to be diamagnetic insulators.[22]

Physical properties

Some small LK-99 samples were reported to show strong diamagnetic properties, including a response confusingly[23] referred to as "partial levitation" over a magnet.[18] This was misinterpreted by some as a sign of superconductivity, although it is a sign of regular diamagnetism or ferromagnetism.

While initial preprints claimed the material was a room-temperature superconductor,[18]: 1  they did not report observing any definitive features of superconductivity, such as zero resistance, the Meissner effect, flux pinning, AC magnetic susceptibility, the Josephson effect, a temperature-dependent critical field and current, or a sudden jump in specific heat around the critical temperature.[24]

As it is common for a new material to spuriously seem like a potential candidate for high-temperature superconductivity,[13] thorough experimental reports normally demonstrate a number of these expected properties. As of 15 October 2023, not one of these properties had been observed by the original experiment or any replications.[25]

Proposed mechanism for superconductivity

Partial replacement of Pb2+ ions with smaller Cu2+ ions is said to cause a 0.48% reduction in volume, creating internal stress in the material,[3]: 8  causing a heterojunction quantum well between the Pb(1) and oxygen within the phosphate ([PO4]3−). This quantum well was proposed to be superconducting[3]: 10 , based on a 2021 paper[26] by Kim Hyun-Tak describing a novel and complicated theory combining ideas from a classical theory of metal-insulator transitions,[27] the standard Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer theory, and the theory of hole superconductivity[28] by J.E.Hirsch.

Response

On 31 July 2023, Sinéad Griffin of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory analyzed LK-99 with density functional theory (DFT), showing that its structure would have correlated isolated flat bands, and suggesting this might contribute to superconductivity.[29] However while other researchers agreed with the DFT analysis, a number suggested that this was not compatible with superconductivity, and that a structure different from what was described in Lee, et al. would be necessary.[30]

Analyses by industrial and experimental physicists noted experimental and theoretical shortcomings of the published works.[31] Shortcomings included the lack of phase diagrams[28] spanning temperature, stoichiometry[32] and stress; the lack of pathways for the very high Tc of LK-99 compared to prior heavy fermion superconductors; the absence of flux pinning in any observations; the possibility of stochastic conductive artifacts[33] in conductivity measurements; the high resistance and low current capacity of the alleged superconducting state; and the lack of direct transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of the materials.

Compound name

The name LK-99 comes from the initials of discoverers Lee and Kim, and the year of discovery (1999).[2] The pair had worked with Tong-Seek Chair (최동식) at Korea University in the 1990s.[34]

In 2008, they founded the Quantum Energy Research Centre (퀀텀 에너지연구소; also known as Q-Centre) with other researchers from Korea University .[16] Lee would later become CEO of Q-Centre, and Kim would become director of research and development.

Publication history

Lee has stated that in 2020, an initial paper was submitted to Nature, but was rejected.[34] Similarly-presented research on room-temperature superconductors (but a completely different chemical system) by Ranga P. Dias had been published in Nature earlier that year, and received with skepticism—Dias's paper would subsequently be retracted in 2022 after its data was questioned as having been falsified.[35]

In 2020, Lee and Kim Ji-Hoon filed a patent application.[36] A second patent application (additionally listing Young-Wan Kwon), was filed in 2021, which was published on 3 March 2023.[37] A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) patent was also published on 2 March 2023.[38] On 4 April 2023, a Korean trademark application for "LK-99" was filed by the Q-Centre.[39]

Scholarly articles and preprints

A series of academic publications summarizing initial findings came out in 2023, with a total of seven authors across four publications.

On 31 March 2023, a Korean-language paper, "Consideration for the development of room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor (LK-99)", was submitted to the Korean Journal of Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology.[4] It was accepted on 18 April, but was not widely read until three months later.

On 22 July 2023, two preprints appeared on arXiv. The first was submitted by Young-Wan Kwon, and listed Kwon, former Q-Centre CTO, as third author.[3] The second preprint was submitted only 2 hours later by Kim Hyun-Tak, former principal researcher at the Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute and professor at the College of William & Mary, listing himself as third author, as well as three new authors.[18][40]

On 23 July, the findings were also submitted by Lee to APL Materials for peer review.[34][16] On 3 August 2023, a newly-formed Korean LK-99 Verification Committee requested a high-quality sample from the original research team. The team responded that they would only provide the sample once the review process of their APL paper was completed, expected to take several weeks or months.[41]

On 31 July 2023, a group led by Kapil Kumar published a preprint on arXiv documenting their replication attempts, which confirmed the structure using X-ray crystallography (XRD) but failed to find strong diamagnetism.[19]

On 16 August 2023, Nature published an article declaring that LK-99 had been demonstrated to not be a superconductor, but rather an insulator. It cited statements by an condensed matter experimentalist at the University of California, Davis, and several studies previewed in August 2023.[1]

Other discussion by authors

On 26 July 2023, Kim Hyun-Tak stated in an interview with the New Scientist that the first paper submitted by Kwon contained "many defects" and was submitted without his permission.[32][40]

On 28 July 2023, Kwon presented the findings at a symposium held at Korea University.[42][43][44] That same day, Yonhap News Agency published an article quoting an official from Korea University as saying that Kwon was no longer in contact with the University.[16] The article also quoted Lee saying that Kwon had left the Q-Centre Research Institute four months previously.[16]

On the same day, Kim Hyun-Tak provided the New York Times with a new video presumably showing a sample displaying strong signs of diamagnetism.[2] The video appears to show a sample different to the one in the original preprint. On 4 August 2023, he informed SBS News that high-quality LK-99 samples may exhibit diamagnetism over 5,000 times greater than graphite, which he claimed would be inexplicable unless the substance is a superconductor.[45]

Response

Materials scientists and superconductor researchers responded with skepticism.[17][46] The highest-temperature superconductors known at the time of publication had a critical temperature of 250 K (−23 °C; −10 °F) at pressures of over 170 gigapascals (1,680,000 atm; 24,700,000 psi). The highest-temperature superconductors at atmospheric pressure (1 atm) had a critical temperature of at most 150 K (−123 °C; −190 °F).

On 2 August 2023, the The Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics established a verification committee as a response to the controversy and unverified claims of LK-99, in order to arrive at conclusions over these claims. The verification committee is headed by Kim Chang-Young of Seoul National University and consists of members of the university, Sungkyunkwan University and Pohang University of Science and Technology. Upon formation, the verification committee did not agree that the two 22 July arXiv papers by Lee et al. or the publicly available videos at the time supported the claim of LK-99 being a superconductor.[40][47]

As of 15 August 2023, the measured properties do not prove that LK-99 is a superconductor. The published material does not explain how the LK-99's magnetisation can change, demonstrate its specific heat capacity, or demonstrate it crossing its transition temperature.[17] A more likely explanation for LK-99's magnetic response is a mix of ferromagnetism and non-superconductive diamagnetism.[40][15][48] A number of studies found that copper(I) sulfide contamination common to the synthesis process could closely replicate the observations that inspired the initial preprints.[9][10]

Public response

The claims in the 22 July papers by Lee et al. went viral on social media platforms the following week.[5][49] The viral nature of the claim resulted in posts from users using pseudonyms from Russia and China claiming to have replicated LK-99 on both Twitter and Zhihu.[50] Other viral videos described themselves as having replicated samples of LK-99 "partially levitating", most of which were found to be fake.[46]

Scientists interviewed by the press remained skeptical,[51][52] because of the quality of both the original preprints, the lack of purity in the sample they reported, and the legitimacy of the claim after the failure of previous claims of room temperature superconductivity did not show legitimacy (such as the Ranga Dias affair).[40] The Korean Society of Superconductivity and Cryogenics expressed concern on the social and economic impacts of the preliminary and unverified LK-99 research.[53]

A video from Huazhong University of Science and Technology uploaded on 1 August 2023 by a postdoctoral researcher on the team of Chang Haixin,[40] apparently showed a micrometre-sized sample of LK-99 partially levitating. This went viral on Chinese social media, becoming the most viewed video on Bilibili by the next day,[54][40] and a prediction market briefly put the chance of successful replication at 60%.[55] A researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences refused to comment on the video for the press, dismissing the claim as "ridiculous".[54]

In early August, people began to create memes about "floating rocks",[56] meme coins based on the substance were created,[57] and there was a brief surge in Korean and Chinese technology stocks,[58][59][60] despite warnings from the Korean stock exchange against speculative bets in light of the excitement around LK-99,[53] which eventually fell on August 8.[61] Following the publication of the Nature article on August 16 that proclaimed LK-99 is not a superconductor,[1] South Korean superconductor stocks fell further, as the interest about LK-99 from investors in previous weeks disappeared.[62]

Replication attempts

After the July 2023 publication's release, independent groups reported that they had begun attempting to reproduce the synthesis, with initial results expected within weeks.[5]

As of 15 August 2023, no replication attempts had yet been peer-reviewed by a journal. Of the non-peer-reviewed attempts, over 15 notable labs have published results that failed to observe any superconductivity, and a few have observed magnetic response in small fragments that could be explained by normal diamagnetism or ferromagnetism. Some demonstrated and replicated alternate causes of the observations in the original papers: Copper-deficient copper (I) sulfide[9] has a known phase transition at 377 K (104 °C; 219 °F) from a low-temperature phase to a high-temperature superionic phase, with a sharp rise in resistivity[10][9] and a λ-like-feature in the heat capacity.[9] Furthermore, Cu2S is diamagnetic.

Only one attempt observed any sign of superconductivity: Southeast University claimed to measure very low resistance in a flake of LK-99, in one of four synthesis attempts, below a temperature of 110 K (−163 °C; −262 °F).[2][63] Doubts were expressed by experts in the field, as they saw no dropoff to zero resistance, and used crude instruments that could not measure resistance below 10 μΩ (too high to distinguish superconductivity from less exotic low-temperature conductivity), and had large measurement artifacts.[46][64]

Some replication efforts gained global visibility, with the aid of online replication trackers that catalogued new announcements and status updates.[50][25]

Experimental studies

Selected experimental studies.

Results Key:   Success   Partial success   Partial failure   Failure

Group Country/region Status Results Publication notes
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research  Germany Preliminary Produced pure LK-99 samples with floating zone technique. Purple crystals with high resistance, no magnetic response. arXiv: P. Puphal, et al.[65]

Press Coverage:[1][66]

Huazhong University of Science and Technology  China Preliminary Measured diamagnetism of micron-sized flakes. Non-zero resistance, purity of sample was important. arXiv: Hao Wu, et al.[31][14]

Video posted to bilibili.[33][67]

Press coverage:[25][40][54][50]

Beihang University Preliminary No diamagnetism observed. High resistivity not consistent with superconductivity. arXiv: Li Liu, et al.[68]

Press coverage:[56][69]

Southeast University Preliminary Structure confirmed by XRD. Resistance of one mm-sized sample dropped from 0.1Ω at room temperature to noise level (10-5Ω) at 110 K and below. No observed Meissner effect. arXiv: Qiang Hou, et al.[70][71]

Video announcement:[63]

Critical responses:[46][64]

Press coverage:[2]

Peking University Preliminary No Meissner effect nor zero resistivity observed. arXiv: Kaizhen Guo, et al.[72]

Press Coverage:[1]

Chinese Academy of Sciences (Condensed Matter) Preliminary No superconductivity observed. Proposed that resistivity drop and strong diamagnetism could be due to a phase change of Cu2S impurities. arXiv: Shilin Zhu, et al.[10]

Press Coverage:[1][66]

DIPC, Princeton, Max Planck Institute  Spain,  USA,  Germany Preliminary Synthesized LK-99 found to be a multiphase material. Performed single-crystal analysis with XRD. Tested 4 different Cu dopings, some found to be magnetic but none was superconducting. arXiv: Jiang, et al.[73]

Press Coverage:[1][66]

University of Manchester  United Kingdom Preliminary Synthesized and characterized samples of LK-99, no superconductivity. arXiv: Ivan Timokhin et al.[74]
National Physical Laboratory of India (CSIR-NPLI)  India Preliminary Initial attempt: Structure confirmed by XRD, no diamagnetism or superconductivity.

Second attempt: strong diamagnetism in a fragment.

 Video by V.P.S Awana:[75]

arXiv: Kapil Kumar, et al.[19][76][77]

Press coverage:[40][56][50][69]

Varda Space Industries & University of Southern California  United States Preliminary Only a few LK-99 fragments responded to magnetic field.

Analysis showed impurities of Iron and Cu2S, which could explain magnetic response rather than superconductivity.

 Videos shared on Twitter:[78][79], streamed on Twitch.

Team headed by Andrew McCalip. Samples analysed by USC.[80][12]

Press coverage:[66][40][50][49]

University of Colorado Boulder Unpublished Samples have failed tests for superconductivity. Daniel Dessau, et al.

Press Coverage:[6]

Argonne National Laboratory Un­known Not reported Press coverage:[40][81][50]
Korea University, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul National University  South Korea Un­known Not reported Supporting the committee reportedly evaluating the claims about LK-99.[47]

Press coverage:[40]

Theoretical studies

In the initial papers, the theoretical explanations for potential mechanisms of superconductivity in LK-99 were incomplete. Later analyses by other labs added simulations and theoretical evaluations of the material's electronic properties from first principles.

Selected theoretical studies:

Group Country Result Publication notes
Chinese Academy of Sciences (SYNL)  China First-principles study of the electronic structure of LK-99 and other variants. Expresses no opinion on room-temp superconductivity. arXiv: Junwen Lai, et al.[82]

Media mentions:[83]

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  United States DFT analysis on a simplified 3D structure explored possible electronic structure that could favor superconductivity, suggests slightly decreased lattice constant.

Similar work published the next day by Si & Held[30] and Kurleto, et al.[84]

 arXiv: Sinéad Griffin[29][b 1]Analysis:[85][86]

Media mentions:[55][56]

Universidad de Chile  Chile DFT analysis, finding large electron-phonon coupling in the flat bands. arXiv: J. Cabezas-Escares, et al.[87]
CIEMAT  Spain,  Armenia Concludes the original synthesis for LK-99 likely produces a heterogenous material, making it hard for others to reproduce the same results arXiv: P. Abramian, et al.[21]
Northwest University (China) and TU Wien  China,  Austria Concludes Pb9Cu(PO4)6O, without further doping, is an insulator. Analyzes possible effects of doping. arXiv: Liang Si & Karsten Held[30][b 1]
Indiana University - Bloomington  United States Concludes material is a transparent insulator, possibly with active Cu color centers at low temperature. Does not find signatures of type I or II superconductivity. Solves previous issues related to overestimation of lattice constant contraction, doping site energetics. Does not find flat bands at Fermi level, concluding they are related to an unfavored high-symmetry structure. arxiv: A.B. Georgescu[88]Analysis and discussions: [89][90]
  1. The first three density functional theory analyses were published within 24 hours of one another, and have largely overlapping analysis.

See also

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