{"id":204348,"date":"2025-01-23T02:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-research-uncovers-exotic-electron-crystal-in-graphene"},"modified":"2025-01-23T02:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:39:14","slug":"new-research-uncovers-exotic-electron-crystal-in-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-research-uncovers-exotic-electron-crystal-in-graphene","title":{"rendered":"New research uncovers exotic electron crystal in graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-uncovers-exotic-electron-crystal-in-graphene2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of British Columbia, the University of Washington, and Johns Hopkins University have identified a new class of quantum states in a custom-engineered graphene structure.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <i>Nature<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08239-6\" target=\"_blank\">the study<\/a> reports the discovery of topological electronic crystals in twisted bilayer\u2013trilayer graphene, a system created by introducing a precise rotational twist between stacked two-dimensional materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe starting point for this work is two flakes of graphene, which are made up of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb structure. The way electrons hop between the carbon atoms determines the electrical properties of the graphene, which ends up being superficially similar to more common conductors like copper,\u201d said Prof. Joshua Folk, a member of UBC\u2019s Physics and Astronomy Department and the Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (UBC Blusson QMI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of British Columbia, the University of Washington, and Johns Hopkins University have identified a new class of quantum states in a custom-engineered graphene structure. Published in Nature, the study reports the discovery of topological electronic crystals in twisted bilayer\u2013trilayer graphene, a system created by introducing a precise rotational twist between stacked [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204348","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=204348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}