{"id":207762,"date":"2025-03-04T03:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/exploring-quantum-materials-resonant-inelastic-x-ray-scattering-captures-microscopic-rapidly-changing-properties"},"modified":"2025-03-04T03:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T09:28:13","slug":"exploring-quantum-materials-resonant-inelastic-x-ray-scattering-captures-microscopic-rapidly-changing-properties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/exploring-quantum-materials-resonant-inelastic-x-ray-scattering-captures-microscopic-rapidly-changing-properties","title":{"rendered":"Exploring quantum materials: Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering captures microscopic, rapidly changing properties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exploring-quantum-materials-resonant-inelastic-x-ray-scattering-captures-microscopic-rapidly-changing-properties.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From computer chips to image sensors in cameras, today\u2019s technology is overwhelmingly based on a semiconductor called silicon. This technology has been shrinking for decades\u2014think of early room-sized computers compared to today\u2019s desktops\u2014but physical limitations will soon prevent further improvement.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why scientists and engineers are preparing for a new generation of technology\u2014one based on quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>The electrons in so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum materials<\/a>\u201d behave differently than those in silicon, enabling more complex behaviors, like magnetism and superconductivity, that are useful for future quantum technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From computer chips to image sensors in cameras, today\u2019s technology is overwhelmingly based on a semiconductor called silicon. This technology has been shrinking for decades\u2014think of early room-sized computers compared to today\u2019s desktops\u2014but physical limitations will soon prevent further improvement. That\u2019s why scientists and engineers are preparing for a new generation of technology\u2014one based on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207762","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=207762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}