{"id":190093,"date":"2024-05-25T13:22:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T18:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/physicists-uncover-unusual-new-quantum-state-known-as-dirac-spin-liquid"},"modified":"2024-05-25T13:22:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T18:22:37","slug":"physicists-uncover-unusual-new-quantum-state-known-as-dirac-spin-liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/physicists-uncover-unusual-new-quantum-state-known-as-dirac-spin-liquid","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Uncover Unusual New Quantum State Known As \u201cDirac Spin Liquid\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-uncover-unusual-new-quantum-state-known-as-dirac-spin-liquid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers at the University of Hong Kong discovered Dirac spinons in the material YCu3-Br, providing evidence of a quantum spin liquid state and potentially advancing applications in quantum computing and high-temperature superconductivity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quasiparticles are fascinating entities that arise from collective behavior within materials and can be treated as a group of particles. Specifically, Dirac spinons are anticipated to exhibit unique characteristics similar to Dirac particles in high-energy physics and Dirac electrons in graphene and quantum moir\u00e9 materials, such as a linear dispersion relation between energy and momentum. However, spin-\u00bd charge-neutral quasiparticles had not been observed in quantum magnets until this work.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u201cTo find Dirac spinons in quantum magnets has been the dream of generations of condensed matter physicists; now that we have seen the evidence of them, one can start to think about the countless potential applications of such highly entangled quantum material. Who knows, maybe one-day people will build quantum computers with it, just as people have been doing in the past half-century with silicon,\u2019\u201d said Professor Meng, <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/the-university-of-hong-kong\/\">HKU<\/a> physicist and one of the corresponding authors of the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Hong Kong discovered Dirac spinons in the material YCu3-Br, providing evidence of a quantum spin liquid state and potentially advancing applications in quantum computing and high-temperature superconductivity. Quasiparticles are fascinating entities that arise from collective behavior within materials and can be treated as a group of particles. Specifically, Dirac spinons [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190093","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\/190093","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=190093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}