{"id":216179,"date":"2025-06-18T09:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/dramatic-stretch-in-quantum-materials-confirms-100-year-old-prediction"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:14:17","slug":"dramatic-stretch-in-quantum-materials-confirms-100-year-old-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/dramatic-stretch-in-quantum-materials-confirms-100-year-old-prediction","title":{"rendered":"Dramatic stretch in quantum materials confirms 100-year-old prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dramatic-stretch-in-quantum-materials-confirms-100-year-old-prediction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research from the University of St Andrews has set a new benchmark for the precision with which researchers can explore fundamental physics in quantum materials. The work has implications extending from materials science to advanced computing, as well as confirming a nearly 100-year-old prediction.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers explored magnetoelastic coupling, which is the change in the size or shape of a material when exposed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic field<\/a>. It is usually a small effect, but one that has technological consequences.<\/p>\n<p>A team from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews has now discovered that this effect is remarkably large in a case where one wouldn\u2019t have expected it\u2014in a transition metal oxide. Oxides are a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+compound\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical compound<\/a> containing at least one <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/oxygen+atom\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">oxygen atom<\/a> and one other element in its chemical formula. High-temperature superconductors are one of the most prominent examples of a transition metal oxide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research from the University of St Andrews has set a new benchmark for the precision with which researchers can explore fundamental physics in quantum materials. The work has implications extending from materials science to advanced computing, as well as confirming a nearly 100-year-old prediction. The researchers explored magnetoelastic coupling, which is the change in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,48,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216179","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=216179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}