{"id":126074,"date":"2021-08-10T20:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T03:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/holy-grail-discovery-in-solid-state-physics-could-usher-in-new-technologies"},"modified":"2021-08-10T20:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T03:23:29","slug":"holy-grail-discovery-in-solid-state-physics-could-usher-in-new-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/holy-grail-discovery-in-solid-state-physics-could-usher-in-new-technologies","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Holy grail discovery\u2019 in solid-state physics could usher in new technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/holy-grail-discovery-in-solid-state-physics-could-usher-in-new-technologies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This axion insulating state was realized, Bansil says, by combining certain metals and observing their magnetoelectric response. In this case, researchers used a solid state chip composed of manganese bismuth telluride, which were adhered together in two-dimensional layers, to measure the resulting electric and magnetic properties.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers note that such a finding has implications for a range of technologies, including sensors, switches, computers, and memory storage devices, among many others. The \u201cstorage, transportation, and manipulation of magnetic data could become much faster, more robust, and energy-efficient\u201d if scientists can integrate these new topological materials into future devices, the researchers write.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like discovering a new element,\u201d Bansil says. \u201cAnd we know there\u2019s going to be all sorts of interesting applications for this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This axion insulating state was realized, Bansil says, by combining certain metals and observing their magnetoelectric response. In this case, researchers used a solid state chip composed of manganese bismuth telluride, which were adhered together in two-dimensional layers, to measure the resulting electric and magnetic properties. Researchers note that such a finding has implications for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126074","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=126074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}