{"id":100825,"date":"2020-01-13T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T05:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/influential-electrons-physicists-uncover-a-quantum-relationship"},"modified":"2020-01-13T21:26:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T05:26:07","slug":"influential-electrons-physicists-uncover-a-quantum-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/influential-electrons-physicists-uncover-a-quantum-relationship","title":{"rendered":"Influential electrons? Physicists uncover a quantum relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/influential-electrons-physicists-uncover-a-quantum-relationship2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists has mapped how electron energies vary from region to region in a particular quantum state with unprecedented clarity. This understanding reveals an underlying mechanism by which electrons influence one another, termed quantum \u201chybridization,\u201d that had been invisible in previous experiments.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, the work of scientists at New York University, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Rutgers University, and MIT, are reported in the journal Nature Physics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis sort of relationship is essential to understanding a quantum electron system\u2014and the foundation of all movement\u2014but had often been studied from a theoretical standpoint and not thought of as observable through experiments,\u201d explains Andrew Wray, an assistant professor in NYU\u2019s Department of Physics and one of the paper\u2019s co-authors. \u201cRemarkably, this work reveals a diversity of energetic environments inside the same material, allowing for comparisons that let us spot how electrons shift between states.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of physicists has mapped how electron energies vary from region to region in a particular quantum state with unprecedented clarity. This understanding reveals an underlying mechanism by which electrons influence one another, termed quantum \u201chybridization,\u201d that had been invisible in previous experiments. The findings, the work of scientists at New York University, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}