{"id":101192,"date":"2020-01-22T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/billions-of-quantum-entangled-electrons-found-in-strange-metal"},"modified":"2020-01-22T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:03:10","slug":"billions-of-quantum-entangled-electrons-found-in-strange-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/billions-of-quantum-entangled-electrons-found-in-strange-metal","title":{"rendered":"Billions of quantum entangled electrons found in \u2018strange metal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/billions-of-quantum-entangled-electrons-found-in-strange-metal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The research, which appears this week in <em>Science<\/em>, examined the electronic and magnetic behavior of a \u201cstrange metal\u201d compound of ytterbium, rhodium and silicon as it both neared and passed through a critical transition at the boundary between two well-studied quantum phases.<\/p>\n<p>The study at Rice University and Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) provides the strongest direct evidence to date of entanglement\u2019s role in bringing about quantum criticality, said study co-author Qimiao Si of Rice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we think about quantum entanglement, we think about small things,\u201d Si said. \u201cWe don\u2019t associate it with macroscopic objects. But at a quantum critical point, things are so collective that we have this chance to see the effects of entanglement, even in a metallic film that contains billions of billions of quantum mechanical objects.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research, which appears this week in Science, examined the electronic and magnetic behavior of a \u201cstrange metal\u201d compound of ytterbium, rhodium and silicon as it both neared and passed through a critical transition at the boundary between two well-studied quantum phases. The study at Rice University and Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) provides [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101192","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\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}