{"id":145542,"date":"2022-09-03T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/quantum-magnet-is-billions-of-times-colder-than-interstellar-space"},"modified":"2022-09-03T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T20:23:06","slug":"quantum-magnet-is-billions-of-times-colder-than-interstellar-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/quantum-magnet-is-billions-of-times-colder-than-interstellar-space","title":{"rendered":"Quantum magnet is billions of times colder than interstellar space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-magnet-is-billions-of-times-colder-than-interstellar-space3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The atoms arranged in lines and sheets reached about 1.2 nanokelvin, more than 2 billion times colder than interstellar space. For the atoms in three-dimensional arrangements, the situation is so complex that the researchers are still figuring out the best way to measure the temperature.<\/p>\n<p>The atoms in the experiment belong to a larger group called fermions and were \u201cthe coldest fermions in the universe\u201d, says Hazzard. \u201cThinking about experimenting on this 10 years ago, it looked like a theorist\u2019s dream,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists have long been interested in how atoms interact in exotic magnets like this because they suspect that similar interactions happen in high-temperature superconductors \u2013 materials that perfectly conduct electricity. By better understanding what happens, they could build better superconductors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The atoms arranged in lines and sheets reached about 1.2 nanokelvin, more than 2 billion times colder than interstellar space. For the atoms in three-dimensional arrangements, the situation is so complex that the researchers are still figuring out the best way to measure the temperature. The atoms in the experiment belong to a larger group [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145542","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=145542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}