{"id":121566,"date":"2021-04-15T01:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T08:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/in-a-first-scientists-watch-2d-puddles-of-electrons-spontaneously-emerge-in-a-3d-superconducting-material"},"modified":"2021-04-15T01:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T08:22:18","slug":"in-a-first-scientists-watch-2d-puddles-of-electrons-spontaneously-emerge-in-a-3d-superconducting-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/in-a-first-scientists-watch-2d-puddles-of-electrons-spontaneously-emerge-in-a-3d-superconducting-material","title":{"rendered":"In a first, scientists watch 2D puddles of electrons spontaneously emerge in a 3D superconducting material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-first-scientists-watch-2d-puddles-of-electrons-spontaneously-emerge-in-a-3d-superconducting-material2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Creating a two-dimensional material, just a few atoms thick, is often an arduous process requiring sophisticated equipment. So scientists were surprised to see 2D puddles emerge inside a three-dimensional superconductor\u2014a material that allows electrons to travel with 100% efficiency and zero resistance\u2014with no prompting.<\/p>\n<p>Within those puddles, superconducting electrons acted as if they were confined inside an incredibly thin, sheet-like plane, a situation that requires them to somehow cross over to another dimension, where different rules of quantum physics apply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a tantalizing example of emergent behavior, which is often difficult or impossible to replicate by trying to engineer it from scratch,\u201d said Hari Manoharan, a professor at Stanford University and investigator with the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, who led the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a two-dimensional material, just a few atoms thick, is often an arduous process requiring sophisticated equipment. So scientists were surprised to see 2D puddles emerge inside a three-dimensional superconductor\u2014a material that allows electrons to travel with 100% efficiency and zero resistance\u2014with no prompting. Within those puddles, superconducting electrons acted as if they were confined [\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-121566","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\/121566","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=121566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}