{"id":159096,"date":"2023-02-27T09:24:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T15:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-quantum-state-boosts-materials-conductivity-by-a-billion-percent"},"modified":"2023-02-27T09:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T15:24:36","slug":"new-quantum-state-boosts-materials-conductivity-by-a-billion-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-quantum-state-boosts-materials-conductivity-by-a-billion-percent","title":{"rendered":"New quantum state boosts material\u2019s conductivity by a billion percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-quantum-state-boosts-materials-conductivity-by-a-billion-percent2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Georgia Tech have discovered a new quantum state in a quirky material. In a phenomenon never before seen in anything else, the team found that applying a magnetic field increased the material\u2019s electrical conductivity by a billion percent.<\/p>\n<p>Some materials are known to change their conductivity in response to a changing magnetic field, a property called magnetoresistance. But in the new study, the material does so to an incredible degree, exhibiting <i>colossal<\/i> magnetoresistance.<\/p>\n<p>The material is an alloy of manganese, silicon and tellurium, which takes the form of octagonal cells arranged in a honeycomb pattern, and stacked in sheets. Electrons move around the outside of those octagons, but when there\u2019s no magnetic field applied they travel in random directions, causing a traffic jam. That effectively makes the material act like an insulator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Georgia Tech have discovered a new quantum state in a quirky material. In a phenomenon never before seen in anything else, the team found that applying a magnetic field increased the material\u2019s electrical conductivity by a billion percent. Some materials are known to change their conductivity in response to a changing magnetic field, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159096","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\/159096","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=159096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}