{"id":107597,"date":"2020-05-25T00:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T07:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/counterintuitive-superconductivity-and-quantum-computing-breakthrough-using-pressure-to-make-liquid-magnetism"},"modified":"2020-05-25T00:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T07:03:35","slug":"counterintuitive-superconductivity-and-quantum-computing-breakthrough-using-pressure-to-make-liquid-magnetism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/counterintuitive-superconductivity-and-quantum-computing-breakthrough-using-pressure-to-make-liquid-magnetism","title":{"rendered":"Counterintuitive Superconductivity and Quantum Computing Breakthrough: Using Pressure to Make Liquid Magnetism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/counterintuitive-superconductivity-and-quantum-computing-breakthrough-using-pressure-to-make-liquid-magnetism3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Using two flat-top diamonds and a lot of pressure, scientists have forced a magnetic crystal into a spin liquid state, which may lead to insights into high-temperature superconductivity and quantum computing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It sounds like a riddle: What do you get if you take two small diamonds, put a small magnetic crystal between them and squeeze them together very slowly?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is a magnetic liquid, which seems counterintuitive. Liquids become solids under pressure, but not generally the other way around. But this unusual pivotal discovery, unveiled by a team of researchers working at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at DOE\u2019s Argonne National Laboratory, may provide scientists with new insight into high-temperature superconductivity and quantum computing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using two flat-top diamonds and a lot of pressure, scientists have forced a magnetic crystal into a spin liquid state, which may lead to insights into high-temperature superconductivity and quantum computing. It sounds like a riddle: What do you get if you take two small diamonds, put a small magnetic crystal between them and squeeze [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107597","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=107597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}