{"id":106310,"date":"2020-05-01T02:05:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/imaging-nematic-transitions-in-iron-pnictide-superconductors"},"modified":"2020-05-01T02:05:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:05:38","slug":"imaging-nematic-transitions-in-iron-pnictide-superconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/imaging-nematic-transitions-in-iron-pnictide-superconductors","title":{"rendered":"Imaging nematic transitions in iron pnictide superconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/imaging-nematic-transitions-in-iron-pnictide-superconductors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Stanford University have recently carried out an in-depth study of nematic transitions in iron pnictide superconductors. Their paper, published in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, presents new imaging data of these transitions collected using a microscope they invented, dubbed the scanning quantum cryogenic atom microscope (SQCRAMscope).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe invented a new type of scanning probe microscope a few years ago,\u201d Benjamin L. Lev, the researcher who led the study, told Phys.org. \u201cOne can think of it like a normal optical microscope, but instead of the lens focused on some sample slide, the focus is on a quantum gas of atoms that are levitated near the sample.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the new microscope invented by Lev and his colleagues, atoms are levitated from an \u2018atom chip\u2019 trapping device using magnetic fields, until they are merely a micron above the sample slide. These atoms can transduce the magnetic fields that emanate from the sample into the light collected by the microscope\u2019s lens. As a result, SQCRAMscope can be used to image magnetic fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Stanford University have recently carried out an in-depth study of nematic transitions in iron pnictide superconductors. Their paper, published in Nature Physics, presents new imaging data of these transitions collected using a microscope they invented, dubbed the scanning quantum cryogenic atom microscope (SQCRAMscope). \u201cWe invented a new type of scanning probe microscope a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106310","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=106310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}