{"id":164623,"date":"2023-05-27T00:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T05:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/fractons-as-information-storage-not-yet-tangible-but-close"},"modified":"2023-05-27T00:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T05:25:43","slug":"fractons-as-information-storage-not-yet-tangible-but-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/fractons-as-information-storage-not-yet-tangible-but-close","title":{"rendered":"Fractons as information storage: Not yet tangible, but close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fractons-as-information-storage-not-yet-tangible-but-close.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excitations in solids can also be represented mathematically as quasiparticles; for example, lattice vibrations that increase with temperature can be well described as phonons. Mathematically, also quasiparticles can be described that have never been observed in a material before. If such \u201ctheoretical\u201d quasiparticles have interesting talents, then it is worth taking a closer look. Take fractons, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Fractons are fractions of spin excitations and are not allowed to possess kinetic energy. As a consequence, they are completely stationary and immobile. This makes fractons new candidates for perfectly secure information storage. Especially since they can be moved under special conditions, namely piggyback on another quasiparticle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFractons have emerged from a mathematical extension of quantum electrodynamics, in which electric fields are treated not as vectors but as tensors\u2014completely detached from real materials,\u201d explains Prof. Dr. Johannes Reuther, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theoretical+physicist\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theoretical physicist<\/a> at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin and at HZB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excitations in solids can also be represented mathematically as quasiparticles; for example, lattice vibrations that increase with temperature can be well described as phonons. Mathematically, also quasiparticles can be described that have never been observed in a material before. If such \u201ctheoretical\u201d quasiparticles have interesting talents, then it is worth taking a closer look. Take [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164623","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=164623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}