{"id":215488,"date":"2025-06-06T05:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/quantum-state-lifetimes-extended-by-laser-triggered-electron-tunneling-in-cuprate-ladders"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:13:10","slug":"quantum-state-lifetimes-extended-by-laser-triggered-electron-tunneling-in-cuprate-ladders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/quantum-state-lifetimes-extended-by-laser-triggered-electron-tunneling-in-cuprate-ladders","title":{"rendered":"Quantum state lifetimes extended by laser-triggered electron tunneling in cuprate ladders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-state-lifetimes-extended-by-laser-triggered-electron-tunneling-in-cuprate-ladders.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum materials exhibit remarkable emergent properties when they are excited by external sources. However, these excited states decay rapidly once the excitation is removed, limiting their practical applications.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Harvard University and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have now demonstrated an approach to stabilize these fleeting states and probe their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+behavior\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum behavior<\/a> using bright X-ray flashes from the X-ray free electron laser SwissFEL at PSI. The findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-025-02254-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Materials.<\/p>\n<p>Some materials exhibit fascinating quantum properties that can lead to transformative technologies, from lossless electronics to high-capacity batteries. However, when these materials are in their natural state, these properties remain hidden, and scientists need to gently ask for them to pop up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum materials exhibit remarkable emergent properties when they are excited by external sources. However, these excited states decay rapidly once the excitation is removed, limiting their practical applications. A team of researchers from Harvard University and the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have now demonstrated an approach to stabilize these fleeting states and probe their quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215488","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\/215488","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=215488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}