{"id":169070,"date":"2023-08-05T04:33:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T09:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/waves-of-charge-signal-rare-physics-at-work-inside-a-superconductor"},"modified":"2023-08-05T04:33:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T09:33:48","slug":"waves-of-charge-signal-rare-physics-at-work-inside-a-superconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/waves-of-charge-signal-rare-physics-at-work-inside-a-superconductor","title":{"rendered":"Waves of charge signal rare physics at work inside a superconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/waves-of-charge-signal-rare-physics-at-work-inside-a-superconductor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA place for everything and everything in its place\u201d\u2014making sense of order, or disorder, helps us understand nature. Animals tend to fit nicely into categories: Mammals, birds, reptiles, whatever an axolotl is, and more. Sorting also applies to materials: Insulator, semiconductor, conductor, and even superconductor. Where exactly a material lands in the hierarchy depends on a seemingly invisible interplay of electrons, atoms, and their surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike animals, the boundaries are less sharp, and tweaking a material\u2019s environment can force it to bounce between categories. For example, dialing down the temperature will turn some <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a> into superconductors. Snapping on a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic field<\/a> might reverse this effect. Within a single category, different types of order, or phases, can emerge from the sea of particles.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we can\u2019t see this nanoscopic universe with our eyes, but scientists can use advanced imaging tools to visualize what\u2019s going on. Every once in a while, they uncover unexpected and surprising behaviors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA place for everything and everything in its place\u201d\u2014making sense of order, or disorder, helps us understand nature. Animals tend to fit nicely into categories: Mammals, birds, reptiles, whatever an axolotl is, and more. Sorting also applies to materials: Insulator, semiconductor, conductor, and even superconductor. Where exactly a material lands in the hierarchy depends on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169070","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=169070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}