{"id":106703,"date":"2020-05-07T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/powerful-new-magnet-provides-fresh-insight-into-frozen-quantum-materials"},"modified":"2020-05-07T11:46:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:46:49","slug":"powerful-new-magnet-provides-fresh-insight-into-frozen-quantum-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/powerful-new-magnet-provides-fresh-insight-into-frozen-quantum-materials","title":{"rendered":"Powerful new magnet provides fresh insight into \u2018frozen\u2019 quantum materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/powerful-new-magnet-provides-fresh-insight-into-frozen-quantum-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE\u2019s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have finished the preliminary commissioning of a new 14-tesla magnet at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). This new sample environment allows researchers to explore the fundamental physics behind complex behavior of quantum matter.<\/p>\n<p>The magnet, which also features an optional dilution refrigerator insert, is the latest low-temperature sample <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/environment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environment<\/a> to be commissioned at SNS. Weighing 2,670 pounds and standing nearly 7 feet tall, this massive device is an excellent tool for researchers wanting to learn more about materials that exhibit quantum phenomena. Its powerful magnetic field forces quantum particles to behave in an orderly way, giving scientists the opportunity to locate patterns in otherwise disordered <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum systems<\/a>. And with its refrigerator\u2014which can chill samples to &minus;459.65\u00b0 F\u2014scientists can essentially \u201cfreeze\u201d molecular vibrations in materials that might appear as background noise in neutron scattering studies. This allows for more accurate measurements of the excitations associated with quantum magnets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuantum systems often lack discernible order. This makes it difficult to understand their fundamental characteristics. This new sample environment lets us bring order to these systems we\u2019re interested in studying,\u201d said Matt Stone, a lead instrument scientist at ORNL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE\u2019s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have finished the preliminary commissioning of a new 14-tesla magnet at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). This new sample environment allows researchers to explore the fundamental physics behind complex behavior of quantum matter. The magnet, which also features an optional dilution refrigerator insert, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106703","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}