{"id":176532,"date":"2023-11-23T02:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T08:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/quantum-riddle-solved-purple-bronze-discovery-unveils-perfect-switch-for-future-tech"},"modified":"2023-11-23T02:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T08:24:28","slug":"quantum-riddle-solved-purple-bronze-discovery-unveils-perfect-switch-for-future-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/quantum-riddle-solved-purple-bronze-discovery-unveils-perfect-switch-for-future-tech","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Riddle Solved: Purple Bronze Discovery Unveils \u201cPerfect Switch\u201d for Future Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-riddle-solved-purple-bronze-discovery-unveils-perfect-switch-for-future-tech2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum scientists have discovered a phenomenon in purple bronze, a one-dimensional metal, that allows it to switch between insulating and superconducting states. This switch, triggered by minimal stimuli like heat or light, is due to \u2019emergent symmetry\u2019. This groundbreaking finding, initiated by research into the metal\u2019s magnetoresistance, could lead to the development of perfect switches in quantum devices, a potential milestone in quantum technology.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum scientists have discovered a phenomenon in purple bronze that could be key to the development of a \u2018perfect switch\u2019 in quantum devices which flips between being an insulator and superconductor.<\/p>\n<p>The research, led by the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-bristol\/\">University of Bristol<\/a> and published in <em><i>Science<\/i><\/em>, found these two opposing electronic states exist within purple bronze, a unique one-dimensional metal composed of individual conducting chains of atoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum scientists have discovered a phenomenon in purple bronze, a one-dimensional metal, that allows it to switch between insulating and superconducting states. This switch, triggered by minimal stimuli like heat or light, is due to \u2019emergent symmetry\u2019. This groundbreaking finding, initiated by research into the metal\u2019s magnetoresistance, could lead to the development of perfect switches [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176532","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=176532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}