{"id":183342,"date":"2024-02-22T09:22:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-discover-exotic-quantum-interference-effect-in-a-topological-insulator-device"},"modified":"2024-02-22T09:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:22:23","slug":"scientists-discover-exotic-quantum-interference-effect-in-a-topological-insulator-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/scientists-discover-exotic-quantum-interference-effect-in-a-topological-insulator-device","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover exotic quantum interference effect in a topological insulator device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-exotic-quantum-interference-effect-in-a-topological-insulator-device2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a novel experiment, physicists have observed long range quantum coherence effects due to Aharonov-Bohm interference in a topological insulator-based device. This finding opens up a new realm of possibilities for the future development of topological quantum physics and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>This finding could also affect the development of spin-based electronics, which may potentially replace some current electronic systems for higher energy efficiency and may provide new platforms to explore <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-024-02388-1\">published<\/a> in the February 20 issue of <i><i>Nature Physics<\/i>,<\/i> is the culmination of more than 15 years of work at Princeton. It came about when Princeton scientists developed a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum device <\/a>\u2014called a bismuth bromide (\u03b1-Bi<sub>4<\/sub>Br<sub>4<\/sub>) topological insulator\u2014only a few nanometers thick and used it to investigate <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+coherence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum coherence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a novel experiment, physicists have observed long range quantum coherence effects due to Aharonov-Bohm interference in a topological insulator-based device. This finding opens up a new realm of possibilities for the future development of topological quantum physics and engineering. This finding could also affect the development of spin-based electronics, which may potentially replace some [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183342","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}