{"id":212061,"date":"2025-04-22T02:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/its-a-quantum-zoo-out-there-and-scientists-just-found-a-dozen-new-species"},"modified":"2025-04-22T02:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T07:16:17","slug":"its-a-quantum-zoo-out-there-and-scientists-just-found-a-dozen-new-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/its-a-quantum-zoo-out-there-and-scientists-just-found-a-dozen-new-species","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a quantum zoo out there, and scientists just found a dozen new \u2018species\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-a-quantum-zoo-out-there-and-scientists-just-found-a-dozen-new-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a seemingly endless number of quantum states that describe quantum matter and the strange phenomena that emerge when large numbers of electrons interact. For decades, many of these states have been theoretical: mathematical and computational predictions potentially hiding among real-life materials\u2014a zoo, as many scientists are coming to refer to it, with new \u201cspecies\u201d just waiting to be discovered and described.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study published on April 3 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08954-8\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature<\/i><\/a>, researchers added over a dozen states to the growing quantum zoo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of these states have never been seen before,\u201d said lead author Xiaoyang Zhu, Howard Family Professor of Nanoscience at Columbia. \u201cAnd we didn\u2019t expect to see so many either.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a seemingly endless number of quantum states that describe quantum matter and the strange phenomena that emerge when large numbers of electrons interact. For decades, many of these states have been theoretical: mathematical and computational predictions potentially hiding among real-life materials\u2014a zoo, as many scientists are coming to refer to it, with new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212061","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=212061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}