{"id":121514,"date":"2021-04-13T21:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-observation-of-kardar-parisi-zhang-hydrodynamics-in-a-quantum-material"},"modified":"2021-04-13T21:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:24:04","slug":"the-observation-of-kardar-parisi-zhang-hydrodynamics-in-a-quantum-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-observation-of-kardar-parisi-zhang-hydrodynamics-in-a-quantum-material","title":{"rendered":"The observation of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang hydrodynamics in a quantum material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-observation-of-kardar-parisi-zhang-hydrodynamics-in-a-quantum-material2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Classical hydrodynamics laws can be very useful for describing the behavior of systems composed of many particles (i.e., many-body systems) after they reach a local state of equilibrium. These laws are expressed by so-called hydrodynamical equations, a set of mathematical equations that describe the movement of water or other fluids.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have recently carried out a study exploring the hydrodynamics of a quantum Heisenberg spin-1\/2 chain. Their paper, published in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, shows that the spin dynamics of a 1D Heisenberg antiferromagnet (i.e., KCuF<sub>3<\/sub>) could be effectively described by a dynamical exponent aligned with the so-called Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoel Moore and I have known each other for many years and we both have an interest in quantum magnets as a place where we can explore and test new ideas in physics; my interests are experimental and Joel\u2019s are theoretical,\u201d Alan Tennant, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Phys.org. \u201cFor a long time, we have both been interested in temperature in quantum systems, an area where a number of really new insights have come along recently, but we had not worked together on any projects.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classical hydrodynamics laws can be very useful for describing the behavior of systems composed of many particles (i.e., many-body systems) after they reach a local state of equilibrium. These laws are expressed by so-called hydrodynamical equations, a set of mathematical equations that describe the movement of water or other fluids. Researchers at Oak Ridge National [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121514","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=121514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}