{"id":165636,"date":"2023-06-12T13:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-simple-solution-for-nuclear-matter-in-two-dimensions"},"modified":"2023-06-12T13:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:22:48","slug":"a-simple-solution-for-nuclear-matter-in-two-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-simple-solution-for-nuclear-matter-in-two-dimensions","title":{"rendered":"A simple solution for nuclear matter in two dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-simple-solution-for-nuclear-matter-in-two-dimensions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Understanding the behavior of nuclear matter\u2014including the quarks and gluons that make up the protons and neutrons of atomic nuclei\u2014is extremely complicated. This is particularly true in our world, which is three dimensional. Mathematical techniques from condensed matter physics that consider interactions in just one spatial dimension (plus time) greatly simplify the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Using this two-dimensional approach, scientists solved the complex equations that describe how low-energy excitations ripple through a system of dense nuclear matter. This work indicates that the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neutron\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neutron<\/a> stars, where such dense nuclear matter exists in nature, may be described by an unexpected form.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to understand the quark interactions in two dimensions opens a new window into understanding neutron stars, the densest form of matter in the universe. The approach could help advance the current \u201cgolden age\u201d for studying these exotic stars. This surge in research success was triggered by recent discoveries of gravitational waves and electromagnetic emissions in the cosmos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the behavior of nuclear matter\u2014including the quarks and gluons that make up the protons and neutrons of atomic nuclei\u2014is extremely complicated. This is particularly true in our world, which is three dimensional. Mathematical techniques from condensed matter physics that consider interactions in just one spatial dimension (plus time) greatly simplify the challenge. Using this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229,873,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165636","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=165636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}