{"id":227715,"date":"2025-12-23T21:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/anything-goes-anyons-may-be-at-the-root-of-surprising-quantum-experiments-2"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:09:17","slug":"anything-goes-anyons-may-be-at-the-root-of-surprising-quantum-experiments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/anything-goes-anyons-may-be-at-the-root-of-surprising-quantum-experiments-2","title":{"rendered":"Anything-goes \u201canyons\u201d may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/anything-goes-anyons-may-be-at-the-root-of-surprising-quantum-experiments3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism. Scientists had assumed that these two quantum states are mutually exclusive; the presence of one should inherently destroy the other.<\/p>\n<p>Now, theoretical physicists at MIT have an explanation for how this Jekyll-and-Hyde duality could emerge. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/handle\/1721.1\/164424\" target=\"_blank\">paper appearing today in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em><\/a>, the team proposes that under certain conditions, a magnetic material\u2019s electrons could splinter into fractions of themselves to form quasiparticles known as \u201canyons.\u201d In certain fractions, the quasiparticles should flow together without friction, similar to how regular electrons can pair up to flow in conventional superconductors.<\/p>\n<p>If the team\u2019s scenario is correct, it would introduce an entirely new form of superconductivity \u2014 one that persists in the presence of magnetism and involves a supercurrent of exotic anyons rather than everyday electrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism. Scientists had assumed that these two quantum states are mutually exclusive; the presence of one should inherently destroy the other. Now, theoretical physicists at MIT have an explanation for how this Jekyll-and-Hyde duality [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227715","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\/227715","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=227715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}