{"id":208949,"date":"2025-03-17T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T23:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/qa-crystallizing-time-physicists-create-a-new-phase-of-matter-in-the-center-of-a-diamond"},"modified":"2025-03-17T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T23:09:03","slug":"qa-crystallizing-time-physicists-create-a-new-phase-of-matter-in-the-center-of-a-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/qa-crystallizing-time-physicists-create-a-new-phase-of-matter-in-the-center-of-a-diamond","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Crystallizing time\u2014physicists create a new phase of matter in the center of a diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/qa-crystallizing-time-physicists-create-a-new-phase-of-matter-in-the-center-of-a-diamond.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In their ongoing efforts to push the boundaries of quantum possibilities, physicists in Arts &amp; Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis have created a new type of \u201ctime crystal,\u201d a novel phase of matter that defies common perceptions of motion and time.<\/p>\n<p>The WashU research team includes Kater Murch, the Charles M. Hohenberg Professor of Physics, Chong Zu, an assistant professor of physics, and Zu\u2019s graduate students Guanghui He, Ruotian \u201cReginald\u201d Gong, Changyu Yao, and Zhongyuan Liu. Bingtian Ye from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University\u2019s Norman Yao are also authors of the research, which has been published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prx\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevX.15.011055\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review X<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Zu, He, and Ye spoke about their achievement and the implications of catching time in a crystal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their ongoing efforts to push the boundaries of quantum possibilities, physicists in Arts &amp; Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis have created a new type of \u201ctime crystal,\u201d a novel phase of matter that defies common perceptions of motion and time. The WashU research team includes Kater Murch, the Charles M. Hohenberg Professor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208949","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=208949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}