{"id":115801,"date":"2020-11-12T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T03:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/physicists-devise-a-brilliant-way-to-make-and-observe-elusive-electron-crystals"},"modified":"2020-11-12T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T03:15:54","slug":"physicists-devise-a-brilliant-way-to-make-and-observe-elusive-electron-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/physicists-devise-a-brilliant-way-to-make-and-observe-elusive-electron-crystals","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Devise a Brilliant Way to Make And Observe Elusive Electron Crystals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-devise-a-brilliant-way-to-make-and-observe-elusive-electron-crystals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1934, theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pr\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRev.46.1002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed a new type of crystal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the density of negatively charged electrons could be maintained below a certain level, the subatomic particles could be held in a repeating pattern to create a crystal of electrons; this idea came to be known as a Wigner crystal.<\/p>\n<p>The first time a Wigner crystal was experimentally observed was <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.42.795\">in 1979<\/a>, when researchers measured an electron-liquid to electron-crystal phase transition using helium; since then, such crystals have been <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.60.2765\">detected<\/a> numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.66.3285\">times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1934, theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner proposed a new type of crystal. If the density of negatively charged electrons could be maintained below a certain level, the subatomic particles could be held in a repeating pattern to create a crystal of electrons; this idea came to be known as a Wigner crystal. The first time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115801","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}