{"id":184468,"date":"2024-03-09T00:20:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T06:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/physicists-reveal-a-strange-form-of-crystal-where-electrons-cant-move"},"modified":"2024-03-09T00:20:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T06:20:15","slug":"physicists-reveal-a-strange-form-of-crystal-where-electrons-cant-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/physicists-reveal-a-strange-form-of-crystal-where-electrons-cant-move","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Reveal a Strange Form of Crystal Where Electrons Can\u2019t Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-reveal-a-strange-form-of-crystal-where-electrons-cant-move2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum traffic laws applied to the 3D streetscape of a specific kind of crystal can put the brakes on electron rush hour.<\/p>\n<p>In a search for novel materials that can contain bizarre new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/states-of-matter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">states of matter<\/a>, physicists from Rice University in the US led an experiment that forced free-roaming electrons to stay in place.<\/p>\n<p>While the phenomenon has been seen in materials where electrons are constrained to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-023-01985-w\">just two dimensions<\/a>, this is the first time it\u2019s been observed in a three-dimensional crystal metal lattice, known as a pyrochlore. The technique gives researchers a new tool for studying the less conventional activities of plucky, charge-carrying particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum traffic laws applied to the 3D streetscape of a specific kind of crystal can put the brakes on electron rush hour. In a search for novel materials that can contain bizarre new states of matter, physicists from Rice University in the US led an experiment that forced free-roaming electrons to stay in place. While [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184468","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\/184468","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=184468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}