{"id":187275,"date":"2024-04-12T16:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T21:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/novel-quantum-effect-observed-in-a-crystalline-material"},"modified":"2024-04-12T16:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T21:22:31","slug":"novel-quantum-effect-observed-in-a-crystalline-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/novel-quantum-effect-observed-in-a-crystalline-material","title":{"rendered":"Novel Quantum Effect Observed in a Crystalline Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-quantum-effect-observed-in-a-crystalline-material.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists have observed a novel quantum effect termed \u201chybrid topology\u201d in a crystalline material. This finding opens up a new range of possibilities for the development of efficient materials and technologies for next-generation quantum science and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The finding, published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07203-8\" class=\"\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">April 10th in the journal <em> Natur <\/em><\/a><i>e<\/i>, came when Princeton scientists discovered that an elemental solid crystal made of arsenic (As) atoms hosts a never-before-observed form of topological quantum behavior. They were able to explore and image this novel quantum state using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and photoemission spectroscopy, the latter a technique used to determine the relative energy of electrons in molecules and atoms.<\/p>\n<p>This state combines, or \u201chybridizes,\u201d two forms of topological quantum behavior\u2014edge states and surface states, which are two types of quantum two-dimensional electron systems. These have been observed in previous experiments, but never simultaneously in the same material where they mix to form a new state of matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have observed a novel quantum effect termed \u201chybrid topology\u201d in a crystalline material. This finding opens up a new range of possibilities for the development of efficient materials and technologies for next-generation quantum science and engineering. The finding, published on April 10th in the journal Natur e, came when Princeton scientists discovered that an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187275","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=187275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}