{"id":190580,"date":"2024-06-04T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/physicists-coax-molecules-into-exotic-quantum-state-ending-decades-long-quest"},"modified":"2024-06-04T08:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T13:22:27","slug":"physicists-coax-molecules-into-exotic-quantum-state-ending-decades-long-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/physicists-coax-molecules-into-exotic-quantum-state-ending-decades-long-quest","title":{"rendered":"Physicists coax molecules into exotic quantum state \u2014 ending decades-long quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-coax-molecules-into-exotic-quantum-state-ending-decades-long-quest3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The results are \u201cfantastic\u201d, says Yan. They will \u201creally inspire and stimulate the rest of the cold-molecules community\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Exotic phases<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Molecular Bose\u2013Einstein condensates could be used in myriad ways. One possibility, says Valtolina, is to create exotic supersolid phases, in which a rigid material flows without resistance. So far this has been achieved only in atomic gases with magnetic interactions \u2014 it could now be done in polar molecules, whose interactions are \u201cway stronger\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are \u201cfantastic\u201d, says Yan. They will \u201creally inspire and stimulate the rest of the cold-molecules community\u201d Exotic phases Molecular Bose\u2013Einstein condensates could be used in myriad ways. One possibility, says Valtolina, is to create exotic supersolid phases, in which a rigid material flows without resistance. So far this has been achieved only in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190580","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=190580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}