{"id":118473,"date":"2021-01-13T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/physicists-detect-tantalising-hints-of-a-fundamentally-new-form-of-quantum-matter"},"modified":"2021-01-13T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:23:11","slug":"physicists-detect-tantalising-hints-of-a-fundamentally-new-form-of-quantum-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/physicists-detect-tantalising-hints-of-a-fundamentally-new-form-of-quantum-matter","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Detect Tantalising Hints of a \u201cFundamentally New Form of Quantum Matter\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-detect-tantalising-hints-of-a-fundamentally-new-form-of-quantum-matter3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Metals and insulators are the yin and yang of physics, their respective material properties strictly dictated by their electrons\u2019 mobility \u2014 metals should conduct electrons freely, while insulators keep them in place.<\/p>\n<p>So when physicists from Princeton University in the US found a quantum quirk of metals bouncing around inside an insulating compound, they were lost for an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll need to wait on further studies to find out exactly what\u2019s going on. But one tantalising possibility is that a previously unseen particle is at work, one that represents neutral ground in electron behaviour. They\u2019re calling it a \u2018neutral fermion\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metals and insulators are the yin and yang of physics, their respective material properties strictly dictated by their electrons\u2019 mobility \u2014 metals should conduct electrons freely, while insulators keep them in place. So when physicists from Princeton University in the US found a quantum quirk of metals bouncing around inside an insulating compound, they were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118473","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\/118473","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}