{"id":229567,"date":"2026-01-22T01:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/using-magnetic-frustration-to-probe-new-quantum-possibilities"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:48:11","slug":"using-magnetic-frustration-to-probe-new-quantum-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/using-magnetic-frustration-to-probe-new-quantum-possibilities","title":{"rendered":"Using magnetic frustration to probe new quantum possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-magnetic-frustration-to-probe-new-quantum-possibilities2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research in the lab of UC Santa Barbara materials professor Stephen Wilson is focused on understanding the fundamental physics behind unusual states of matter and developing materials that can host the kinds of properties needed for quantum functionalities.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-025-02380-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Materials<\/i>, Wilson\u2019s lab group has reported on an innovative way to use a phenomenon referred to as frustration of long-range order in a material system to engineer unconventional magnetic states with potential relevance for quantum technologies.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Wilson emphasized, \u201cThis is fundamental science aimed at addressing a basic question. It\u2019s meant to probe what physics may be possible for future devices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research in the lab of UC Santa Barbara materials professor Stephen Wilson is focused on understanding the fundamental physics behind unusual states of matter and developing materials that can host the kinds of properties needed for quantum functionalities. In a paper published in Nature Materials, Wilson\u2019s lab group has reported on an innovative way to [\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-229567","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\/229567","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=229567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}