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by idanman 3010 days ago
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

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Thank you for finding the source. Looks like this was inaccurate / ambiguous reporting. Still a great discovery for what it is.