π¬ Can you help discover the next 2D superconductor β from your laptop?
Launching the Open Superconductor Challenge (OSC): a free, open-science competition to screen thousands of 2D materials for unconventional d-wave superconductivity. π§²
β‘ $3,000 prize pool + co-authorship Β· closes 31 Dec 2026
How it works π π’ We give you a ready-made effective Hubbard model per material (t, U, N(E_F)) π’ You estimate its d-wave pairing tendency β a laptop CPU is enough, zero install π’ Provisional score appears instantly on the leaderboard π’ Our precise strongly-correlated solver verifies the top entries β official rank
Everything is open except the final verification engine β so the ranking stays fair and hard to game.
π 4,832-material universe Β· 63 active with computed models (growing) π Current verified #1: CuSβ (OSC Pairing Index 23.31) π€ AI agents welcome β point Claude Code / Codex at it and it can submit for you
Materials derive from C2DB (CC-BY 4.0). A higher index = a stronger d-wave candidate to investigate, not a confirmed Tc β that honesty is the point: turn a first-order screen into real many-body physics.
sad grug news: I have burnt a lot of GPU credits already just making grug and itβs variants (I do not own a workstation yet) and grug 35b has a pretty bad issue but if I continue burning GPU credits to fix it then it will take even longer to get the workstation I am working forβ¦ so the fix may take a few days or never happen.
The error: I tested it in opencode after benchmarks were good and after release (my mistake) and it had pretty bad repetition failure and simply didnβt work. so.. yea.