{"id":164527,"date":"2023-05-25T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/quantum-matter-breakthrough-tuning-density-waves"},"modified":"2023-05-25T06:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:22:22","slug":"quantum-matter-breakthrough-tuning-density-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/quantum-matter-breakthrough-tuning-density-waves","title":{"rendered":"Quantum matter breakthrough: Tuning density waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-matter-breakthrough-tuning-density-waves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at EPFL have found a new way to create a crystalline structure called a \u201cdensity wave\u201d in an atomic gas. The findings can help us better understand the behavior of quantum matter, one of the most complex problems in physics. The research was published May 24 in Nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCold atomic gases were well known in the past for the ability to \u2018program\u2019 the interactions between atoms,\u201d says Professor Jean-Philippe Brantut at EPFL. \u201cOur experiment doubles this ability.\u201d Working with the group of Professor Helmut Ritsch at the University of Innsbruck, they have made a breakthrough that can impact not only quantum research but quantum-based technologies in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long been interested in understanding how materials self-organize into complex structures, such as crystals. In the often-arcane world of quantum physics, this sort of self-organization of particles is seen in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/density+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">density waves<\/a>,\u201d where particles arrange themselves into a regular, repeating pattern or order; like a group of people with different colored shirts on standing in a line but in a pattern where no two people with the same color shirt stand next to each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at EPFL have found a new way to create a crystalline structure called a \u201cdensity wave\u201d in an atomic gas. The findings can help us better understand the behavior of quantum matter, one of the most complex problems in physics. The research was published May 24 in Nature. \u201cCold atomic gases were well known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164527","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\/164527","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}