{"id":134163,"date":"2022-01-17T08:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T16:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/newly-discovered-type-of-strange-metal-material-that-shares-fundamental-quantum-attributes-with-black-holes"},"modified":"2022-01-17T08:25:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T16:25:17","slug":"newly-discovered-type-of-strange-metal-material-that-shares-fundamental-quantum-attributes-with-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/newly-discovered-type-of-strange-metal-material-that-shares-fundamental-quantum-attributes-with-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"Newly Discovered Type of \u201cStrange Metal\u201d \u2014 Material That Shares Fundamental Quantum Attributes With Black Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-discovered-type-of-strange-metal-material-that-shares-fundamental-quantum-attributes-with-black-holes.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new discovery could help scientists to understand \u201cstrange metals,\u201d a class of materials that are related to high-temperature superconductors and share fundamental quantum attributes with black holes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists understand quite well how temperature affects electrical conductance in most everyday metals like copper or silver. But in recent years, researchers have turned their attention to a class of materials that do not seem to follow the traditional electrical rules. Understanding these so-called \u201cstrange metals\u201d could provide fundamental insights into the quantum world, and potentially help scientists understand strange phenomena like high-temperature superconductivity.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a research team co-led by a Brown University physicist has added a new discovery to the strange metal mix. In research published in the journal <em>Nature<\/em>, the team found strange metal behavior in a material in which electrical charge is carried not by electrons, but by more \u201cwave-like\u201d entities called Cooper pairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new discovery could help scientists to understand \u201cstrange metals,\u201d a class of materials that are related to high-temperature superconductors and share fundamental quantum attributes with black holes. Scientists understand quite well how temperature affects electrical conductance in most everyday metals like copper or silver. But in recent years, researchers have turned their attention to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134163","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=134163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}