{"id":134247,"date":"2022-01-18T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/magnetic-surprise-revealed-in-magic-angle-graphene-potential-quantum-computing-applications"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:22:47","slug":"magnetic-surprise-revealed-in-magic-angle-graphene-potential-quantum-computing-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/magnetic-surprise-revealed-in-magic-angle-graphene-potential-quantum-computing-applications","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic Surprise Revealed in \u201cMagic-Angle\u201d Graphene \u2014 Potential Quantum Computing Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetic-surprise-revealed-in-magic-angle-graphene-potential-quantum-computing-applications3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Magnets and superconductors don\u2019t normally get along, but a new study shows that \u2018magic-angle\u2019 graphene is capable of producing both superconductivity and ferromagnetism, which could be useful in quantum computing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When two sheets of the carbon nanomaterial graphene are stacked together at a particular angle with respect to each other, it gives rise to some fascinating physics. For instance, when this so-called \u201cmagic-angle graphene\u201d is cooled to near absolute zero 0, it suddenly becomes a superconductor, meaning it conducts electricity with zero resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a research team from Brown University has found a surprising new phenomenon that can arise in magic-angle graphene. In research published in the journal <em>Science<\/em>, the team showed that by inducing a phenomenon known as spin-orbit coupling, magic-angle graphene becomes a powerful ferromagnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnets and superconductors don\u2019t normally get along, but a new study shows that \u2018magic-angle\u2019 graphene is capable of producing both superconductivity and ferromagnetism, which could be useful in quantum computing. When two sheets of the carbon nanomaterial graphene are stacked together at a particular angle with respect to each other, it gives rise to some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134247","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}