{"id":165465,"date":"2023-06-09T19:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T00:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/quantum-materials-electron-spin-measured-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2023-06-09T19:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T00:22:21","slug":"quantum-materials-electron-spin-measured-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/quantum-materials-electron-spin-measured-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Quantum materials: Electron spin measured for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-materials-electron-spin-measured-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international research team has succeeded for the first time in measuring the electron spin in matter\u2014i.e., the curvature of space in which electrons live and move\u2014within \u201ckagome materials,\u201d a new class of quantum materials.<\/p>\n<p>The results obtained\u2014published in <i>Nature Physics <\/i>\u2014could revolutionize the way quantum materials are studied in the future, opening the door to new developments in quantum technologies, with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/possible+applications\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">possible applications<\/a> in a variety of technological fields, from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/renewable+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">renewable energy<\/a> to biomedicine, from electronics to quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>Success was achieved by an international collaboration of scientists, in which Domenico Di Sante, professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy \u201cAugusto Righi,\u201d participated for the University of Bologna as part of his Marie Curie BITMAP research project. He was joined by colleagues from CNR-IOM Trieste, Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice, University of Milan, University of W\u00fcrzburg (Germany), University of St. Andrews (UK), Boston College and University of Santa Barbara (U.S.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team has succeeded for the first time in measuring the electron spin in matter\u2014i.e., the curvature of space in which electrons live and move\u2014within \u201ckagome materials,\u201d a new class of quantum materials. The results obtained\u2014published in Nature Physics \u2014could revolutionize the way quantum materials are studied in the future, opening the door [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165465","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=165465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}