{"id":115811,"date":"2020-11-13T04:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T12:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-discover-new-family-of-quasiparticles-in-graphene-based-materials"},"modified":"2020-11-13T04:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T12:22:17","slug":"scientists-discover-new-family-of-quasiparticles-in-graphene-based-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-discover-new-family-of-quasiparticles-in-graphene-based-materials","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover new family of quasiparticles in graphene-based materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-new-family-of-quasiparticles-in-graphene-based-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of researchers led by Sir Andre Geim and Dr. Alexey Berdyugin at The University of Manchester have discovered and characterized a new family of quasiparticles named \u2018Brown-Zak fermions\u2019 in graphene-based superlattices.<\/p>\n<p>The team achieved this breakthrough by aligning the atomic lattice of a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/graphene\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">graphene<\/a> layer to that of an insulating boron nitride sheet, dramatically changing the properties of the graphene sheet.<\/p>\n<p>The study follows years of successive advances in graphene-boron nitride superlattices which allowed the observation of a fractal pattern known as the Hofstadter\u2019s butterfly\u2014and today (Friday, November 13) the researchers report another highly surprising behavior of particles in such structures under applied magnetic field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of researchers led by Sir Andre Geim and Dr. Alexey Berdyugin at The University of Manchester have discovered and characterized a new family of quasiparticles named \u2018Brown-Zak fermions\u2019 in graphene-based superlattices. The team achieved this breakthrough by aligning the atomic lattice of a graphene layer to that of an insulating boron nitride sheet, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115811","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=115811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}