{"id":212483,"date":"2025-04-26T17:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-discover-elusive-third-type-of-quantum-particle"},"modified":"2025-04-26T17:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:05:15","slug":"scientists-discover-elusive-third-type-of-quantum-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-discover-elusive-third-type-of-quantum-particle","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover elusive third type of quantum particle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-elusive-third-type-of-quantum-particle2.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But now, a bold new idea is challenging this tidy system. Scientists at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rice.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rice University<\/a> in Texas believe there may be a third kind of particle\u2014one that doesn\u2019t follow the rules of fermions or bosons. They\u2019ve developed a mathematical model showing how these unusual entities, called paraparticles, could exist in real materials without breaking the laws of physics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe determined that new types of particles we never knew of before are possible,\u201d says Kaden Hazzard, one of the researchers behind the study. Along with co-author Zhiyuan Wang, Hazzard used advanced math to explore this idea.<\/p>\n<p>Their work, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08262-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nature<\/a>, suggests that paraparticles might arise in special systems and act differently than anything scientists have seen before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But now, a bold new idea is challenging this tidy system. Scientists at Rice University in Texas believe there may be a third kind of particle\u2014one that doesn\u2019t follow the rules of fermions or bosons. They\u2019ve developed a mathematical model showing how these unusual entities, called paraparticles, could exist in real materials without breaking the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212483","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}