{"id":124044,"date":"2021-06-21T09:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/physicists-induce-motionless-quantum-state-in-largest-object-yet"},"modified":"2021-06-21T09:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T16:22:45","slug":"physicists-induce-motionless-quantum-state-in-largest-object-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/physicists-induce-motionless-quantum-state-in-largest-object-yet","title":{"rendered":"Physicists induce motionless quantum state in largest object yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-induce-motionless-quantum-state-in-largest-object-yet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStationary\u201d has very different meanings at quantum and real-world scales \u2013 an object that looks perfectly still to us is actually made up of atoms that are buzzing and bouncing around. Now, scientists have managed to slow down the atoms almost to a complete stop in the largest macro-scale object yet.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature of a given object is directly tied to the motion of its atoms \u2013 basically, the hotter something is, the more its atoms jiggle around. By extension, there\u2019s a point where the object is so cold that its atoms come to a complete standstill, a temperature known as absolute zero (&minus;273.15 \u00b0C,-459.67 \u00b0F).<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been able to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/science\/coldest-chemical-reaction-harvard\/\">chill atoms<\/a> and groups of atoms to a fraction above absolute zero for decades now, inducing what\u2019s called the motional ground state. This is a great starting point to then create exotic states of matter, such as <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/supersolid-matter-demonstrated\/48274\/\">supersolids<\/a>, or fluids that seem to have <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/negative-mass-fluid\/49040\/\">negative mass<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStationary\u201d has very different meanings at quantum and real-world scales \u2013 an object that looks perfectly still to us is actually made up of atoms that are buzzing and bouncing around. Now, scientists have managed to slow down the atoms almost to a complete stop in the largest macro-scale object yet. The temperature of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124044","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\/124044","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}