{"id":158766,"date":"2023-02-22T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/researchers-make-a-new-type-of-quantum-material-with-a-dramatic-distortion-pattern"},"modified":"2023-02-22T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T02:27:00","slug":"researchers-make-a-new-type-of-quantum-material-with-a-dramatic-distortion-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/researchers-make-a-new-type-of-quantum-material-with-a-dramatic-distortion-pattern","title":{"rendered":"Researchers make a new type of quantum material with a dramatic distortion pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-make-a-new-type-of-quantum-material-with-a-dramatic-distortion-pattern3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have created a new type of quantum material whose atomic scaffolding, or lattice, has been dramatically warped into a herringbone pattern.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting distortions are \u201chuge\u201d compared to those achieved in other materials, said Woo Jin Kim, a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) at SLAC who led the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very fundamental result, so it\u2019s hard to make predictions about what may or may not come out of it, but the possibilities are exciting,\u201d said SLAC\/Stanford Professor and SIMES Director Harold Hwang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have created a new type of quantum material whose atomic scaffolding, or lattice, has been dramatically warped into a herringbone pattern. The resulting distortions are \u201chuge\u201d compared to those achieved in other materials, said Woo Jin Kim, a postdoctoral researcher at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158766","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\/158766","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}