{"id":188345,"date":"2024-04-29T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/quantum-breakthrough-when-light-makes-materials-magnetic"},"modified":"2024-04-29T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:22:27","slug":"quantum-breakthrough-when-light-makes-materials-magnetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/quantum-breakthrough-when-light-makes-materials-magnetic","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Breakthrough when Light makes Materials Magnetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-breakthrough-when-light-makes-materials-magnetic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The potential of quantum technology is huge but is today largely limited to the extremely cold environments of laboratories. Now, researchers at Stockholm University, at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics and at the Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice have succeeded in demonstrating for the very first time how laser light can induce quantum behavior at room temperature \u2014 and make non-magnetic materials magnetic. The breakthrough is expected to pave the way for faster and more energy-efficient computers, information transfer and data storage.<\/p>\n<p>Within a few decades, the advancement of quantum technology is expected to revolutionize several of society\u2019s most important areas and pave the way for completely new technological possibilities in communication and energy.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular interest for researchers in the field are the peculiar and bizarre properties of quantum particles \u2014 which deviate completely from the laws of classical physics and can make materials magnetic or superconducting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The potential of quantum technology is huge but is today largely limited to the extremely cold environments of laboratories. Now, researchers at Stockholm University, at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics and at the Ca\u2019 Foscari University of Venice have succeeded in demonstrating for the very first time how laser light can induce quantum behavior [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188345","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}