{"id":209515,"date":"2025-03-22T14:09:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/50-years-later-scientists-just-found-a-quantum-butterfly-hiding-in-graphene"},"modified":"2025-03-22T14:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:09:45","slug":"50-years-later-scientists-just-found-a-quantum-butterfly-hiding-in-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/50-years-later-scientists-just-found-a-quantum-butterfly-hiding-in-graphene","title":{"rendered":"50 Years Later, Scientists Just Found a Quantum \u201cButterfly\u201d Hiding in Graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/50-years-later-scientists-just-found-a-quantum-butterfly-hiding-in-graphene.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at Princeton stumbled upon a mysterious quantum pattern hidden in twisted graphene \u2014 something theorized nearly 50 years ago but never seen before. What they found wasn\u2019t part of the plan\u2026 and it looks like a butterfly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists at Princeton stumbled upon a mysterious quantum pattern hidden in twisted graphene \u2014 something theorized nearly 50 years ago but never seen before. What they found wasn\u2019t part of the plan\u2026 and it looks like a butterfly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209515","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}