{"id":129206,"date":"2021-10-19T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T21:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/physics-experiment-reveals-formation-of-a-new-state-of-matter-breaks-time-reversal-symmetry"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T21:22:28","slug":"physics-experiment-reveals-formation-of-a-new-state-of-matter-breaks-time-reversal-symmetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/physics-experiment-reveals-formation-of-a-new-state-of-matter-breaks-time-reversal-symmetry","title":{"rendered":"Physics Experiment Reveals Formation of a New State of Matter \u2014 Breaks Time-Reversal Symmetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physics-experiment-reveals-formation-of-a-new-state-of-matter-breaks-time-reversal-symmetry.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The central principle of superconductivity is that electrons form pairs. But can they also condense into foursomes? Recent findings have suggested they can, and a physicist at KTH Royal Institute of Technology today published the first experimental evidence of this quadrupling effect and the mechanism by which this state of matter occurs.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting in <em>Nature Physics,<\/em> Professor Egor Babaev and collaborators presented evidence of fermion quadrupling in a series of experimental measurements on the iron-based material, Ba1\u2212xKxFe2As2. The results follow nearly 20 years after Babaev first <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nature02910\">predicted this kind of phenomenon<\/a>, and eight years after he published a paper predicting that it could occur in the material.<\/p>\n<p>The pairing of electrons enables the quantum state of superconductivity, a zero-resistance state of conductivity which is used in MRI scanners and quantum computing. It occurs within a material as a result of two electrons bonding rather than repelling each other, as they would in a vacuum. The phenomenon was first described in a theory by, Leon Cooper, John Bardeen and John Schrieffer, whose work was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1972.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The central principle of superconductivity is that electrons form pairs. But can they also condense into foursomes? Recent findings have suggested they can, and a physicist at KTH Royal Institute of Technology today published the first experimental evidence of this quadrupling effect and the mechanism by which this state of matter occurs. Reporting in Nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129206","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=129206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}