{"id":203164,"date":"2025-01-06T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/physicists-measure-quantum-geometry-of-electrons-for-first-time"},"modified":"2025-01-06T00:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T06:47:00","slug":"physicists-measure-quantum-geometry-of-electrons-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/physicists-measure-quantum-geometry-of-electrons-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Measure Quantum Geometry of Electrons For First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-measure-quantum-geometry-of-electrons-for-first-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new breakthrough may help scientists solve some of the mysteries of the quantum realm.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, physicists have been able to measure the geometrical \u2018shape\u2019 a lone electron adopts as it moves through a solid. It\u2019s an achievement that will unlock a whole new way of studying how crystalline solids behave on a quantum level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve essentially developed a blueprint for obtaining some completely new information that couldn\u2019t be obtained before,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/mrl.mit.edu\/index.php\/articles\/physicists_measure_quantum_geometry_for_the_first_time\">says physicist Riccardo Comin<\/a> of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new breakthrough may help scientists solve some of the mysteries of the quantum realm. For the first time, physicists have been able to measure the geometrical \u2018shape\u2019 a lone electron adopts as it moves through a solid. It\u2019s an achievement that will unlock a whole new way of studying how crystalline solids behave on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203164","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}