{"id":160067,"date":"2023-03-12T04:25:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T09:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/physicists-explore-mysteries-of-strange-metals"},"modified":"2023-03-12T04:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T09:25:51","slug":"physicists-explore-mysteries-of-strange-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/physicists-explore-mysteries-of-strange-metals","title":{"rendered":"Physicists explore mysteries of strange metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-explore-mysteries-of-strange-metals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists are learning more about the bizarre behavior of \u201cstrange metals,\u201d which operate outside the normal rules of electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretical physicist Yashar Komijani, an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, contributed to an international experiment using a strange metal made from an alloy of ytterbium, a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/rare+earth+metal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rare earth metal<\/a>. Physicists in a lab in Hyogo, Japan, fired radioactive gamma rays at the strange metal to observe its unusual electrical behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Hisao Kobayashi with the University of Hyogo and RIKEN, the study was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abc4787\">the journal <i>Science<\/i><\/a>. The experiment revealed unusual fluctuations in the strange metal\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+charge\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical charge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists are learning more about the bizarre behavior of \u201cstrange metals,\u201d which operate outside the normal rules of electricity. Theoretical physicist Yashar Komijani, an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, contributed to an international experiment using a strange metal made from an alloy of ytterbium, a rare earth metal. Physicists in a lab in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160067","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=160067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}