{"id":195276,"date":"2024-08-27T00:23:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/superconductivity-study-confirms-existence-of-edge-supercurrents"},"modified":"2024-08-27T00:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T05:23:01","slug":"superconductivity-study-confirms-existence-of-edge-supercurrents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/superconductivity-study-confirms-existence-of-edge-supercurrents","title":{"rendered":"Superconductivity study confirms existence of edge supercurrents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superconductivity-study-confirms-existence-of-edge-supercurrents3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Topological materials are materials that have unusual properties that arise because their wavefunction\u2014the physical law guiding the electrons\u2014is knotted or twisted. Where the topological material meets the surrounding space, the wavefunction must unwind. To accommodate this abrupt change, the electrons at the edge of the material must behave differently than they do in the main bulk of the material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topological materials are materials that have unusual properties that arise because their wavefunction\u2014the physical law guiding the electrons\u2014is knotted or twisted. Where the topological material meets the surrounding space, the wavefunction must unwind. To accommodate this abrupt change, the electrons at the edge of the material must behave differently than they do in the main [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195276","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}