{"id":205803,"date":"2025-02-07T03:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/researchers-observe-a-phase-transition-in-a-1d-chain-of-atoms-using-a-quantum-simulator"},"modified":"2025-02-07T03:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T09:16:23","slug":"researchers-observe-a-phase-transition-in-a-1d-chain-of-atoms-using-a-quantum-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/researchers-observe-a-phase-transition-in-a-1d-chain-of-atoms-using-a-quantum-simulator","title":{"rendered":"Researchers observe a phase transition in a 1D chain of atoms using a quantum simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-observe-a-phase-transition-in-a-1d-chain-of-atoms-using-a-quantum-simulator.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phase transitions, shifts between different states of matter, are widely explored physical phenomena. So far, these transitions have primarily been studied in three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) systems, yet theories suggest that they could also occur in some one-dimensional (1D) systems.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Duke Quantum Center and the University of Maryland recently reported the first observation of a finite-energy phase transition in a 1D chain of atoms simulated on a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum device<\/a>. Their paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-024-02751-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, introduces a promising approach to realizing finite-energy states in quantum simulation platforms, which opens new possibilities for the study of phase transitions in 1D systems.<\/p>\n<p>The recent study is a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/collaborative+effort\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">collaborative effort<\/a> that combined the work of theoretical physicists at the University of Maryland with that of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/experimental+physicists\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">experimental physicists<\/a> at the Duke Quantum Center, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+simulator\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum simulator<\/a> was placed and where the experiments were carried out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phase transitions, shifts between different states of matter, are widely explored physical phenomena. So far, these transitions have primarily been studied in three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) systems, yet theories suggest that they could also occur in some one-dimensional (1D) systems. Researchers at the Duke Quantum Center and the University of Maryland recently reported the [\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-205803","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\/205803","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=205803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}