{"id":208741,"date":"2025-03-15T05:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T10:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/world-first-physicists-create-a-supersolid-out-of-light"},"modified":"2025-03-15T05:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T10:15:22","slug":"world-first-physicists-create-a-supersolid-out-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/world-first-physicists-create-a-supersolid-out-of-light","title":{"rendered":"World First: Physicists Create a Supersolid Out of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/world-first-physicists-create-a-supersolid-out-of-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-have-achieved-a-supersolid-state-for-the-first-time-and-it-s-so-much-stranger-than-predicted\">Supersolids<\/a> are a strange quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/states-of-matter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">state of matter<\/a> that combines properties of solids and liquids.<\/p>\n<p>Now they\u2019ve gotten even more mind-bending, as scientists have transformed light itself into a supersolid. It\u2019s a breakthrough that could lead to new quantum and photonic technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the everyday solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas, an entire zoo of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-uncover-a-new-state-of-matter-hidden-in-the-quantum-world\"> exotic states of matter<\/a> exists. Long theorized but only<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-say-they-ve-created-a-brand-new-form-of-matter-supersolids\"> recently created<\/a>, a supersolid has a crystalline structure like a regular solid, but it can also, counterintuitively, flow freely like a fluid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supersolids are a strange quantum state of matter that combines properties of solids and liquids. Now they\u2019ve gotten even more mind-bending, as scientists have transformed light itself into a supersolid. It\u2019s a breakthrough that could lead to new quantum and photonic technologies. Beyond the everyday solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas, an entire zoo of exotic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208741","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\/208741","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=208741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}