{"id":139164,"date":"2022-05-11T06:02:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T11:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/computational-sleuthing-confirms-first-3d-quantum-spin-liquid"},"modified":"2022-05-11T06:02:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T11:02:49","slug":"computational-sleuthing-confirms-first-3d-quantum-spin-liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/computational-sleuthing-confirms-first-3d-quantum-spin-liquid","title":{"rendered":"Computational sleuthing confirms first 3D quantum spin liquid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computational-sleuthing-confirms-first-3d-quantum-spin-liquid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Computational detective work by U.S. and German physicists has confirmed that cerium zirconium pyrochlore is a 3D quantum spin liquid.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the name, quantum spin liquids are solid materials in which quantum entanglement and the geometric arrangement of atoms frustrate the natural tendency of electrons to magnetically order themselves in relation to one another. The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/geometric+frustration\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">geometric frustration<\/a> in a quantum spin liquid is so severe that electrons fluctuate between quantum magnetic states no matter how cold they become.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretical physicists routinely work with quantum mechanical models that manifest quantum spin liquids, but finding convincing evidence that they exist in actual physical materials has been a decades-long challenge. While a number of 2D or 3D materials have been proposed as possible quantum spin liquids, Rice University physicist Andriy Nevidomskyy has said there\u2019s no established consensus among physicists that any of them qualify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computational detective work by U.S. and German physicists has confirmed that cerium zirconium pyrochlore is a 3D quantum spin liquid. Despite the name, quantum spin liquids are solid materials in which quantum entanglement and the geometric arrangement of atoms frustrate the natural tendency of electrons to magnetically order themselves in relation to one another. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139164","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}