{"id":118512,"date":"2021-01-14T14:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/new-state-of-matter-in-one-dimensional-quantum-gas"},"modified":"2021-01-14T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:22:54","slug":"new-state-of-matter-in-one-dimensional-quantum-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/new-state-of-matter-in-one-dimensional-quantum-gas","title":{"rendered":"New state of matter in one-dimensional quantum gas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the story goes, the Greek mathematician and tinkerer Archimedes came across an invention while traveling through ancient Egypt that would later bear his name. It was a machine consisting of a screw housed inside a hollow tube that trapped and drew water upon rotation. Now, researchers led by Stanford University physicist Benjamin Lev have developed a quantum version of Archimedes\u2019 screw that, instead of water, hauls fragile collections of gas atoms to higher and higher energy states without collapsing. Their discovery is detailed in a paper published Jan. 14 in Science.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy expectation for our system was that the stability of the gas would only shift a little,\u201d said Lev, who is an associate professor of applied physics and of physics in the School of Humanities and Science<\/i>s at Stanford. \u201cI did not expect that I would see a dramatic, complete stabilization of it. That was beyond my wildest conception.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along the way, the researchers also observed the development of scar states\u2014extremely rare trajectories of particles in an otherwise chaotic quantum system<\/a> in which the particles repeatedly retrace their steps like tracks overlapping in the woods. Scar states are of particular interest because they may offer a protected refuge for information encoded in a quantum system. The existence of scar states within a quantum system with many interacting particles\u2014known as a quantum many-body system\u2014has only recently been confirmed. The Stanford experiment is the first example of the scar state in a many-body quantum gas<\/a> and only the second ever real-world sighting of the phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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