{"id":169995,"date":"2023-08-18T23:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/a-new-spin-on-ergodicity-breaking"},"modified":"2023-08-18T23:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:22:46","slug":"a-new-spin-on-ergodicity-breaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/a-new-spin-on-ergodicity-breaking","title":{"rendered":"A new \u2018spin\u2019 on ergodicity breaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-spin-on-ergodicity-breaking2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent <i>Science<\/i> paper, researchers led by JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye, along with collaborators JILA and NIST Fellow David Nesbitt, scientists from the University of Nevada, Reno, and Harvard University, observed novel ergodicity-breaking in C<sub>60<\/sub>, a highly symmetric molecule composed of 60 carbon atoms arranged on the vertices of a \u201csoccer ball\u201d pattern (with 20 hexagon faces and 12 pentagon faces).<\/p>\n<p>Their results revealed ergodicity breaking in the rotations of C<sub>60<\/sub>. Remarkably, they found that this ergodicity breaking occurs without symmetry breaking and can even turn on and off as the molecule spins faster and faster. Understanding ergodicity breaking can help scientists design better-optimized materials for energy and heat transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Many everyday systems exhibit \u201cergodicity\u201d such as heat spreading across a frying pan and smoke filling a room. In other words, matter or energy spreads evenly over time to all system parts as energy conservation allows. On the other hand, understanding how systems can violate (or \u201cbreak\u201d) ergodicity, such as magnets or superconductors, helps scientists understand and engineer other exotic states of matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Science paper, researchers led by JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye, along with collaborators JILA and NIST Fellow David Nesbitt, scientists from the University of Nevada, Reno, and Harvard University, observed novel ergodicity-breaking in C60, a highly symmetric molecule composed of 60 carbon atoms arranged on the vertices of a \u201csoccer ball\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169995","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=169995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}