{"id":177887,"date":"2023-12-09T06:24:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T12:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-superconducting-junction-made-from-a-single-2d-material-promises-to-harness-strange-new-physics"},"modified":"2023-12-09T06:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T12:24:15","slug":"a-superconducting-junction-made-from-a-single-2d-material-promises-to-harness-strange-new-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/a-superconducting-junction-made-from-a-single-2d-material-promises-to-harness-strange-new-physics","title":{"rendered":"A superconducting junction made from a single 2D material promises to harness strange new physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-superconducting-junction-made-from-a-single-2d-material-promises-to-harness-strange-new-physics3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at RIKEN have developed an electronic device that hosts unusual states of matter, which could one day be useful for quantum computation.<\/p>\n<p>When a material exists as an ultrathin layer\u2014a mere one or a few atoms thick\u2014it has totally different properties from thicker samples of the same material. That\u2019s because confining electrons to a 2D plane gives rise to exotic states. Because of their flat dimensions and their broad compatibility with existing semiconductor technologies, such 2D materials are promising for harnessing new phenomenon in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electronic+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electronic devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These states include quantum spin Hall insulators, which conduct electricity along their edges but are electrically insulating in their interiors. Such systems when coupled with superconductivity have been proposed as a route toward engineering topological superconducting states that have potential application in future topological quantum computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists at RIKEN have developed an electronic device that hosts unusual states of matter, which could one day be useful for quantum computation. When a material exists as an ultrathin layer\u2014a mere one or a few atoms thick\u2014it has totally different properties from thicker samples of the same material. That\u2019s because confining electrons to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177887","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}