{"id":213529,"date":"2025-05-08T02:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/physicists-discover-an-unusual-chiral-quantum-state-in-a-topological-material"},"modified":"2025-05-08T02:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:07:04","slug":"physicists-discover-an-unusual-chiral-quantum-state-in-a-topological-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/physicists-discover-an-unusual-chiral-quantum-state-in-a-topological-material","title":{"rendered":"Physicists discover an unusual chiral quantum state in a topological material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-an-unusual-chiral-quantum-state-in-a-topological-material.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chirality\u2014the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror image\u2014has long captivated scientists across biology, chemistry, and physics. The phenomenon is sometimes called \u201chandedness,\u201d because it refers to an object possessing a distinct left- or right-handed form. It is a universal quality that is found across various scales of nature, from molecules and amino acids to the famed double-helix of DNA and the spiraling patterns of snail shells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chirality\u2014the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror image\u2014has long captivated scientists across biology, chemistry, and physics. The phenomenon is sometimes called \u201chandedness,\u201d because it refers to an object possessing a distinct left- or right-handed form. It is a universal quality that is found across various scales of nature, from molecules and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213529","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}