{"id":209420,"date":"2025-03-21T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/physicists-create-new-type-of-time-quasicrystal-inside-a-diamond"},"modified":"2025-03-21T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:14:11","slug":"physicists-create-new-type-of-time-quasicrystal-inside-a-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/physicists-create-new-type-of-time-quasicrystal-inside-a-diamond","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Create New Type of Time Quasicrystal \u2014 Inside a Diamond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5l1KxgHH2Ek?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/time-crystal\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">time crystal<\/a> could represent a breakthrough in quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p>In a diamond zapped with lasers, physicists have created what they believe to be the first true example of a time quasicrystal \u2013 one in which patterns in time are structured, but do not repeat. It\u2019s a fine distinction, but one that could help evolve quantum research and technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey could store quantum memory over long periods of time, essentially like a quantum analog of RAM,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/artsci.washu.edu\/ampersand\/what-is-a-time-crystal-quasicrystal\">says physicist Chong Zu<\/a> of Washington University in the US. \u201cWe\u2019re a long way from that sort of technology. But creating a time quasicrystal is a crucial first step.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of time crystal could represent a breakthrough in quantum physics. In a diamond zapped with lasers, physicists have created what they believe to be the first true example of a time quasicrystal \u2013 one in which patterns in time are structured, but do not repeat. It\u2019s a fine distinction, but one that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209420","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\/209420","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=209420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}