{"id":140349,"date":"2022-06-09T22:02:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T03:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/experiments-in-twisted-layered-quantum-materials-offer-new-picture-of-how-electrons-behave"},"modified":"2022-06-09T22:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T03:02:21","slug":"experiments-in-twisted-layered-quantum-materials-offer-new-picture-of-how-electrons-behave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/experiments-in-twisted-layered-quantum-materials-offer-new-picture-of-how-electrons-behave","title":{"rendered":"Experiments in twisted, layered quantum materials offer new picture of how electrons behave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experiments-in-twisted-layered-quantum-materials-offer-new-picture-of-how-electrons-behave.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent experiment detailed in the journal <i>Nature<\/i> is challenging our picture of how electrons behave in quantum materials. Using stacked layers of a material called tungsten ditelluride, researchers have observed electrons in two-dimensions behaving as if they were in a single dimension\u2014and in the process have created what the researchers assert is a new electronic state of matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really a whole new horizon,\u201d said Sanfeng Wu, assistant professor of physics at Princeton University and the senior author of the paper. \u201cWe were able to create a new electronic phase with this experiment\u2014basically, a new type of metallic state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our current understanding of the behavior of interacting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrons<\/a> in metals can be described by a theory that works well with two-and three-dimensional systems, but breaks down when describing the interaction of electrons in a single dimension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent experiment detailed in the journal Nature is challenging our picture of how electrons behave in quantum materials. Using stacked layers of a material called tungsten ditelluride, researchers have observed electrons in two-dimensions behaving as if they were in a single dimension\u2014and in the process have created what the researchers assert is a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140349","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=140349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}