{"id":187154,"date":"2024-04-11T08:24:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T13:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/quantum-crystal-of-frozen-electrons-the-wigner-crystal-is-visualized-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2024-04-11T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T13:24:17","slug":"quantum-crystal-of-frozen-electrons-the-wigner-crystal-is-visualized-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/quantum-crystal-of-frozen-electrons-the-wigner-crystal-is-visualized-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Quantum crystal of frozen electrons\u2014the Wigner crystal\u2014is visualized for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-crystal-of-frozen-electrons-the-wigner-crystal-is-visualized-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electrons\u2014the infinitesimally small particles that are known to zip around atoms\u2014continue to amaze scientists despite the more than a century that scientists have studied them. Now, physicists at Princeton University have pushed the boundaries of our understanding of these minute particles by visualizing, for the first time, direct evidence for what is known as the Wigner crystal\u2014a strange kind of matter that is made entirely of electrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrons\u2014the infinitesimally small particles that are known to zip around atoms\u2014continue to amaze scientists despite the more than a century that scientists have studied them. Now, physicists at Princeton University have pushed the boundaries of our understanding of these minute particles by visualizing, for the first time, direct evidence for what is known as the [\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-187154","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\/187154","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=187154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}