{"id":182261,"date":"2024-02-08T07:25:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/quantum-materials-a-new-state-of-matter-with-chiral-properties"},"modified":"2024-02-08T07:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T13:25:57","slug":"quantum-materials-a-new-state-of-matter-with-chiral-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/quantum-materials-a-new-state-of-matter-with-chiral-properties","title":{"rendered":"Quantum materials: A new state of matter with chiral properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-materials-a-new-state-of-matter-with-chiral-properties3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international research group has discovered a new state of matter characterized by the existence of a quantum phenomenon called chiral current. These currents are generated on an atomic scale by a cooperative movement of electrons, unlike conventional magnetic materials whose properties originate from the quantum characteristic of an electron known as spin and their ordering in the crystal.<\/p>\n<p>Chirality is a property of extreme importance in science, for example, it is fundamental also to understand DNA. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+phenomenon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum phenomenon<\/a> discovered, the chirality of the currents was detected by studying the interaction between light and matter, in which a suitably polarized photon can emit an electron from the surface of the material with a well-defined spin state.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07033-8\">published in <i>Nature<\/i><\/a>, significantly enriches our knowledge of quantum materials in the search for chiral quantum phases and on the phenomena that occur at the surface of materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research group has discovered a new state of matter characterized by the existence of a quantum phenomenon called chiral current. These currents are generated on an atomic scale by a cooperative movement of electrons, unlike conventional magnetic materials whose properties originate from the quantum characteristic of an electron known as spin and their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182261","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=182261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}