{"id":190344,"date":"2024-05-29T20:24:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/physicists-puzzle-over-emergence-of-strange-electron-aggregates"},"modified":"2024-05-29T20:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:24:53","slug":"physicists-puzzle-over-emergence-of-strange-electron-aggregates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/physicists-puzzle-over-emergence-of-strange-electron-aggregates","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Puzzle Over Emergence of Strange Electron Aggregates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-puzzle-over-emergence-of-strange-electron-aggregates2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the last year, two independent groups have observed electrons behaving like quasiparticles with fractional amounts of charge, like \u2013\u00b2\u2044\u2083 and \u2013\u00b3\u2044\u2085, without the influence of a magnetic field.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In the 127 years since the electron was discovered, it has undergone more scrutiny than perhaps any other particle. As a result, its properties are not just well known, but rote, textbook material: Electrons have a smidgen of mass and negative electric charge. In a conductor, they swim relatively unimpeded as a current; in an insulator, they barely move.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, caveats have cropped up. Under an intense magnetic field, for example, electrons can lose their individual identities and form \u201cquasiparticles\u201d: collective entities, like the shape formed by a school of fish. But even these collective states have been well cataloged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last year, two independent groups have observed electrons behaving like quasiparticles with fractional amounts of charge, like \u2013\u00b2\u2044\u2083 and \u2013\u00b3\u2044\u2085, without the influence of a magnetic field. In the 127 years since the electron was discovered, it has undergone more scrutiny than perhaps any other particle. As a result, its properties are not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190344","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}