alt.hn

8/12/2026 at 7:07:06 PM

Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane

 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10857-1

by sbulaev

8/16/2026 at 1:05:58 PM 

  > "a single layer of Bi2Sr2CuO6+δ (Bi-2201)"
I did not realize one could learn how much chemistry they did not know from a single name. "+δ" is one I've never seen before.

by gavinray

8/16/2026 at 2:14:57 PM

The material is doped by varying the overall oxidation state of the copper, which is balanced by the number of oxygen ions.

by pfdietz

8/16/2026 at 3:03:32 PM

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by gimmeThaBeet

8/14/2026 at 11:49:16 PM

That was fun but this is gun?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-026-03375-4

The two teams could "synergize" their tacit knowledge, overcome "involution"?

Without open peer review like in the old days it's hard, even with frontier models, for nonexperts to know if the above breakthrough was (unfairly?) relegated or how significant TFA is truly

by oliculipolicula

8/16/2026 at 7:48:40 PM

> open peer review like in the old days it's hard

I'm not sure the old days ever had that.

by BigTTYGothGF

8/16/2026 at 4:45:17 PM

In that case you can ignore the article, if it is really significant for layman you will see more articles in the coming weeks/months with simpler explanations

by dgellow

8/16/2026 at 10:38:47 AM

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by RenSoft

8/16/2026 at 10:52:15 AM

The writing here seems very odd. It reads like a product announcement or blog page, not an article in Nature. I'm left questioning its validity.

by iandanforth

8/16/2026 at 11:06:02 AM

Hmm. I didn’t get that impression from a quick skim. Just curious: what makes you think that?

by pama

8/16/2026 at 11:11:56 AM

I would guess it's the 'vast' and the 'unprecedented' for example.

by kzrdude

8/16/2026 at 5:03:50 PM

The cause of anomalous (>40 K) high superconducting transition temperatures in mixed copper (III) oxides is one of the most, if not the most, intensively studied questions in condensed-matter physics. If the researchers believe their experimental system can answer those questions, "vast" and "unprecedented" would be appropriate.

by scythe

8/16/2026 at 11:53:26 AM

Maybe just a combination of academic jargon and English not being the authors first language? At this point I would also not be surprised if language models are used for writing abstracts.

by gestalt1

8/16/2026 at 12:20:04 PM

This is Nature. If they stopped doing editorial work regarding writing style, and use LLMs to generate abstracts, it seems they have outlived their usefulness.

by p-e-w

8/16/2026 at 1:36:12 PM

New here?

by lazide

8/16/2026 at 11:45:09 AM

I noticed that too.The writing style itself seems a bit strange. I'm not deep into superconductors, so I can't judge the science itself but I have doubts about how much trust this article can give.

by ironqcold

8/18/2026 at 7:34:17 AM

Is this paper in arxiv?

by bluepoint