{"id":350406,"date":"2026-03-17T07:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/350406\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T07:55:34","slug":"chinese-scientists-create-worlds-coldest-alloy-it-may-surprise-darpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/350406\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists create world\u2019s coldest alloy. It may surprise DARPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese researchers<\/a> have unveiled a new rare earth alloy so cold and efficient it could upend decades of reliance on helium-3 and send shock waves through the global race for quantum computers or ultra-sensitive detectors.A mini-fridge built with the alloy has achieved temperatures extremely close to absolute zero using no moving parts. And it comes at a time when the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA<\/a>) is actively hunting for exactly such a technology.<\/p>\n

Less than two weeks later, the Chinese scientists answered \u2013 with a paper published in Nature.<\/p>\n

The alloy \u201chas the potential for mass production. The joint team has recently successfully developed a pure metal refrigeration module based on this alloy material,\u201d the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said on its website on February 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis highly efficient cooling module could offer a stable, portable cooling source for quantum chips and support major space exploration projects<\/a> with a self-reliant refrigeration system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese researchers have unveiled a new rare earth alloy so cold and efficient it could upend decades of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[114438,159448,289,159450,1384,59001,31607,61,159449,60,3738,2032,10072,3589,82,53187,115,159447],"class_list":["post-350406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-absolute-zero","tag-adiabatic-demagnetisation-refrigeration","tag-canada","tag-china-solution","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-darpa","tag-helium-3","tag-ie","tag-institute-of-theoretical-physics","tag-ireland","tag-nature","tag-peking-university","tag-quantum-computers","tag-russia","tag-science","tag-shanghai-jiao-tong-university","tag-united-states","tag-us-defense-advanced-research-projects-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}