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UFN, 2022 Volume 192, Number 12, Pages 1409–1412 (Mi ufn15565)

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

What led to retraction of the article on room-temperature superconductivity in the journal Nature: a series of oversights or falsification?

A. V. Sadakov, O. A. Sobolevskiy, V. M. Pudalov

Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: In 2020, the journal Nature published an article under the notorious title “Room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride” (Nature 586 373–377 (2020)) that caused, without exaggeration, an effect like an exploding bomb; after all, it was stated that one of the most important problems in modern physics (implementation of superconductivity at room temperature) has already been solved! In two years, the article has been cited over 500 times and read over 100,000 times. However, in the scientific community, the article led to a great deal of questions, skepticism, and severe criticism. Eventually, on September 26, 2022, Nature retracted this publication. We give here the main reasons for the retraction and our commentary on the significance of this act for the physics of high-temperature superconductivity in general and the superconductivity of hydrides in particular.

PACS: 74.25.-q, 74.70.-b, 99.10.-x

Received: October 14, 2022
Accepted: November 10, 2022

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2022.11.039265


 English version:
Physics–Uspekhi, 2022, 65:12, 1313–1316

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