{"id":126565,"date":"2021-08-21T06:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T13:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/2d-supersolid-that-flows-without-friction-has-been-made-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2021-08-21T06:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T13:22:38","slug":"2d-supersolid-that-flows-without-friction-has-been-made-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/2d-supersolid-that-flows-without-friction-has-been-made-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"2D \u2018Supersolid\u2019 That Flows Without Friction Has Been Made For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2d-supersolid-that-flows-without-friction-has-been-made-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a significant achievement, physicists have produced a two-dimensional supersolid in the lab for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>That may sound incredibly mind-bendy, but it\u2019s a feat researchers have been working towards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-say-they-ve-created-a-brand-new-form-of-matter-supersolids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for more than 50 years<\/a>. Supersolids are strange materials with atoms arranged in the ordered structure of a solid, yet they can flow without friction, just like a superfluid.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prx\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevX.9.021012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">physicists successfully created supersolids<\/a> using ultra-cold magnetic atoms\u2026 but only in one-dimension. Now, a team of Austrian researchers has managed to create the crystal-like structure in 2D for the first time; the result will allow physicists to test and experiment with some of the weirdest materials-science phenomena out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant achievement, physicists have produced a two-dimensional supersolid in the lab for the first time. That may sound incredibly mind-bendy, but it\u2019s a feat researchers have been working towards for more than 50 years. Supersolids are strange materials with atoms arranged in the ordered structure of a solid, yet they can flow without [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126565","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=126565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}