Steady-State Exclusion Theory for Superconductivity: Constraints from Earth Material Evolution and Paradigm Reconstruction of Room-Temperature Superconductivity Research

Abstract Current ambient-pressure room-temperature superconductivity research suffers from poor reproducibility, academic controversies and misguided natural-mineral-based research routes, lacking cross-disciplinary fundamental constraints. This article is a theoretical Perspective. It presents no new experimental data but proposes a cross-disciplinary hypothesis and reorients research paradigms based on existing literature and logical deduction. Integrating geologic mineral evolution and condensed matter thermodynamics, this work originally proposes the Steady-State Exclusion Theory for Superconductivity (SSET). This theory demonstrates that Earth’s natural geological systems cannot generate or preserve steady-state superconducting minerals, since low-energy steady-state natural mineral lattices are thermodynamically incompatible with high-energy metastable lattices required for superconductivity. This study falsifies mainstream natural mineral modification and biomimetic routes, and clarifies that artificially synthesized non-geological metastable materials are the feasible breakthrough direction. It fills interdisciplinary theoretical gaps and reconstructs the global research paradigm of room-temperature superconductivity.