{"id":183693,"date":"2024-02-26T13:33:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T19:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/strange-phase-of-matter-that-only-existed-in-theory-turns-out-to-be-real"},"modified":"2024-02-26T13:33:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T19:33:46","slug":"strange-phase-of-matter-that-only-existed-in-theory-turns-out-to-be-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/strange-phase-of-matter-that-only-existed-in-theory-turns-out-to-be-real","title":{"rendered":"Strange Phase of Matter That Only Existed in Theory Turns Out to Be Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/strange-phase-of-matter-that-only-existed-in-theory-turns-out-to-be-real2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A strange phase of matter that previously existed purely in the realm of theory has finally been detected in a real material.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s known as the Bragg glass phase \u2013 a strange, seemingly paradoxical arrangement of atoms in a glass material where the particles are nearly as ordered as those in a perfect crystal. Scientists weren\u2019t even sure Bragg glass existed, but there it was, hiding in an alloy of palladium inserted between layers of terbium and tellurium (Pd<sub>x<\/sub>ErTe<sub>3<\/sub>).<\/p>\n<p>The discovery, led by physicist Krishnanand Mallayya of Cornell University and published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-023-02380-1\">Nature Physics<\/a><\/em>, not only sheds light on the way materials can behave but demonstrates a powerful new set of techniques for probing the atomic structures of exotic materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange phase of matter that previously existed purely in the realm of theory has finally been detected in a real material. It\u2019s known as the Bragg glass phase \u2013 a strange, seemingly paradoxical arrangement of atoms in a glass material where the particles are nearly as ordered as those in a perfect crystal. Scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183693","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}