{"id":178552,"date":"2023-12-18T00:21:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/electronic-pathways-may-enhance-collective-atomic-vibrations-magnetism"},"modified":"2023-12-18T00:21:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T06:21:27","slug":"electronic-pathways-may-enhance-collective-atomic-vibrations-magnetism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/electronic-pathways-may-enhance-collective-atomic-vibrations-magnetism","title":{"rendered":"Electronic pathways may enhance collective atomic vibrations\u2019 magnetism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electronic-pathways-may-enhance-collective-atomic-vibrations-magnetism3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Materials with enhanced thermal conductivity are critical for the development of advanced devices to support applications in communications, clean energy and aerospace. But in order to engineer materials with this property, scientists need to understand how phonons, or quantum units of the vibration of atoms, behave in a particular substance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhonons are quite important for studying new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a> because they govern several <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/material+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">material properties<\/a> such as thermal conductivity and carrier properties,\u201d said Fuyang Tay, a graduate student in applied physics working with the Rice Advanced Magnet with Broadband Optics (<a href=\"https:\/\/kono.rice.edu\/rambo\/\">RAMBO<\/a>), a tabletop spectrometer in Junichiro Kono\u2019s laboratory at Rice University. \u201cFor example, it is widely accepted that superconductivity arises from electron\u2013phonon interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, there has been growing interest in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+moment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic moment<\/a> carried by phonon modes that show circular motion, also known as chiral <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/phonons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">phonons<\/a>. But the mechanisms that can lead to a large phonon magnetic moment are not well understood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials with enhanced thermal conductivity are critical for the development of advanced devices to support applications in communications, clean energy and aerospace. But in order to engineer materials with this property, scientists need to understand how phonons, or quantum units of the vibration of atoms, behave in a particular substance. \u201cPhonons are quite important for [\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-178552","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\/178552","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=178552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}