{"id":199237,"date":"2024-11-11T02:26:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T08:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-capture-images-of-the-cold-electron-ice-for-first-time"},"modified":"2024-11-11T02:26:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T08:26:12","slug":"scientists-capture-images-of-the-cold-electron-ice-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-capture-images-of-the-cold-electron-ice-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Scientists capture images of the cold \u2018electron ice\u2019 for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-capture-images-of-the-cold-electron-ice-for-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small twist allowed scientists to capture a rare quantum phase that has been under the shadows for decades.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cWigner molecular crystals are important because they may exhibit novel transport and spin properties that could be useful for future quantum technologies such as quantum simulations,\u201d researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) note.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, LBL researchers have captured direct images of the <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/wigner-crystal-seen-first-quantum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\">Wigner molecular crystal<\/a> using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) \u2014- an imaging technique that produces high-resolution visuals of materials at the atomic scale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the first to directly observe this new quantum phase, which was quite unexpected. It\u2019s pretty exciting,\u201d said Feng Wang, one of the study authors and a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small twist allowed scientists to capture a rare quantum phase that has been under the shadows for decades. \u201cWigner molecular crystals are important because they may exhibit novel transport and spin properties that could be useful for future quantum technologies such as quantum simulations,\u201d researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) note. For [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199237","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\/199237","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}