{"id":178549,"date":"2023-12-18T00:20:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/discovery-of-magnetic-liquid-crystal-first-direct-observation-of-spin-quadrupole-moments-in-a-spin-nematic-phase"},"modified":"2023-12-18T00:20:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:20:46","slug":"discovery-of-magnetic-liquid-crystal-first-direct-observation-of-spin-quadrupole-moments-in-a-spin-nematic-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/discovery-of-magnetic-liquid-crystal-first-direct-observation-of-spin-quadrupole-moments-in-a-spin-nematic-phase","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of magnetic liquid crystal: First direct observation of spin quadrupole moments in a spin-nematic phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-of-magnetic-liquid-crystal-first-direct-observation-of-spin-quadrupole-moments-in-a-spin-nematic-phase3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liquid crystal is a state of matter that exhibits properties of both liquid and solid. It can flow like a liquid, while its constituent molecules are aligned as in a solid. Liquid crystal is widely used nowadays, for example, as a core element of LCD devices.<\/p>\n<p>The magnetic analog of this kind of material is dubbed the \u201cspin-nematic phase,\u201d where spin moments play the role of the molecules. However, it has not yet been directly observed despite its prediction a half-century ago. The main challenge stems from the fact that most conventional experimental techniques are insensitive to spin quadrupoles, which are the defining features of this spin-nematic phase.<\/p>\n<p>But now, for the first time in the world, a team of researchers led by Professor Kim Bumjoon at the IBS Center for Artificial Low-Dimensional Electronic Systems in South Korea has succeeded at directly observing spin quadrupoles. This work was made possible through remarkable achievements over the last decades in synchrotron facility development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid crystal is a state of matter that exhibits properties of both liquid and solid. It can flow like a liquid, while its constituent molecules are aligned as in a solid. Liquid crystal is widely used nowadays, for example, as a core element of LCD devices. The magnetic analog of this kind of material is [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178549","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=178549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}