{"id":175621,"date":"2023-11-08T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/no-lasers-needed-optical-cavitys-quantum-trick-alters-material-magnetism"},"modified":"2023-11-08T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:22:46","slug":"no-lasers-needed-optical-cavitys-quantum-trick-alters-material-magnetism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/no-lasers-needed-optical-cavitys-quantum-trick-alters-material-magnetism","title":{"rendered":"No Lasers Needed: Optical Cavity\u2019s Quantum Trick Alters Material Magnetism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-lasers-needed-optical-cavitys-quantum-trick-alters-material-magnetism3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new theoretical approach allows the alteration of \u03b1-RuCl<sub>3<\/sub>\u2019s magnetic properties through quantum fluctuations in an optical cavity, providing a laser-free avenue for material manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Germany and the USA have produced the first theoretical demonstration that the magnetic state of an atomically thin material, \u03b1-RuCl<sub>3, <\/sub>can be controlled solely by placing it into an optical cavity. Crucially, the cavity vacuum fluctuations alone are sufficient to change the material\u2019s magnetic order from a zigzag antiferromagnet into a ferromagnet. The team\u2019s work has been published in the scientific journal npj Computational Materials.<\/p>\n<p>Advancements in Material Physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new theoretical approach allows the alteration of \u03b1-RuCl3\u2019s magnetic properties through quantum fluctuations in an optical cavity, providing a laser-free avenue for material manipulation. Researchers in Germany and the USA have produced the first theoretical demonstration that the magnetic state of an atomically thin material, \u03b1-RuCl3, can be controlled solely by placing it into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175621","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=175621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}