{"id":226271,"date":"2025-12-02T00:34:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/physicists-create-quantum-wire-where-mass-and-energy-flow-without-friction-or-loss"},"modified":"2025-12-02T00:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:34:44","slug":"physicists-create-quantum-wire-where-mass-and-energy-flow-without-friction-or-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/physicists-create-quantum-wire-where-mass-and-energy-flow-without-friction-or-loss","title":{"rendered":"Physicists create \u2018quantum wire\u2019 where mass and energy flow without friction or loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-create-quantum-wire-where-mass-and-energy-flow-without-friction-or-loss.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In physical systems, transport takes many forms, such as electric current through a wire, heat through metal, or even water through a pipe. Each of these flows can be described by how easily the underlying quantity\u2014charge, energy, or mass\u2014moves through a material.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, collisions and friction lead to resistance causing these flows to slow down or fade away. But in a new experiment at TU Wien, scientists have observed a system where that doesn\u2019t happen at all.<\/p>\n<p>By confining thousands of rubidium atoms to move along a single line using magnetic and optical fields, they created an ultracold quantum gas in which energy and mass move with perfect efficiency. The results, now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.ads8327\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science<\/i>, show that even after countless collisions, the flow remains stable and undiminished, thus revealing a kind of transport that defies the rules of ordinary matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In physical systems, transport takes many forms, such as electric current through a wire, heat through metal, or even water through a pipe. Each of these flows can be described by how easily the underlying quantity\u2014charge, energy, or mass\u2014moves through a material. Normally, collisions and friction lead to resistance causing these flows to slow down [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226271","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=226271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}