{"id":118422,"date":"2021-01-12T11:23:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/new-quantum-particle-may-have-been-accidentally-discovered"},"modified":"2021-01-12T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T19:23:57","slug":"new-quantum-particle-may-have-been-accidentally-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/new-quantum-particle-may-have-been-accidentally-discovered","title":{"rendered":"New quantum particle may have been accidentally discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-quantum-particle-may-have-been-accidentally-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically speaking, metals conduct electricity and insulators don\u2019t. On the molecular level, that comes down to how freely electrons can move through the materials \u2013 in metals, electrons are very mobile, while insulators obviously have high resistance that prevents them moving much.<\/p>\n<p>As a side effect of this, metals can exhibit a phenomenon known as quantum oscillations. When exposed to a magnetic field at very low temperatures, electrons can shift into a quantum state that causes the material\u2019s resistivity to oscillate. This doesn\u2019t happen in insulators, however, since their electrons don\u2019t move very well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically speaking, metals conduct electricity and insulators don\u2019t. On the molecular level, that comes down to how freely electrons can move through the materials \u2013 in metals, electrons are very mobile, while insulators obviously have high resistance that prevents them moving much. As a side effect of this, metals can exhibit a phenomenon known as [\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-118422","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\/118422","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=118422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}