{"id":168299,"date":"2023-07-25T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/quantum-avalanche-explains-how-nonconductors-turn-into-conductors"},"modified":"2023-07-25T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:23:04","slug":"quantum-avalanche-explains-how-nonconductors-turn-into-conductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/quantum-avalanche-explains-how-nonconductors-turn-into-conductors","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Quantum avalanche\u2019 explains how nonconductors turn into conductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-avalanche-explains-how-nonconductors-turn-into-conductors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking only at their subatomic particles, most materials can be placed into one of two categories.<\/p>\n<p>Metals\u2014like copper and iron\u2014have free-flowing electrons that allow them to conduct electricity, while <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/insulators\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">insulators <\/a>\u2014like glass and rubbe r\u2014 keep their electrons tightly bound and therefore do not conduct electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Insulators can turn into metals when hit with an intense electric field, offering tantalizing possibilities for microelectronics and supercomputing, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physics<\/a> behind this phenomenon called resistive switching is not well understood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking only at their subatomic particles, most materials can be placed into one of two categories. Metals\u2014like copper and iron\u2014have free-flowing electrons that allow them to conduct electricity, while insulators \u2014like glass and rubbe r\u2014 keep their electrons tightly bound and therefore do not conduct electricity. Insulators can turn into metals when hit with an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168299","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}