{"id":233022,"date":"2026-03-11T03:28:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/study-shows-spiral-sound-can-shift-sideways"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:28:58","slug":"study-shows-spiral-sound-can-shift-sideways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/study-shows-spiral-sound-can-shift-sideways","title":{"rendered":"Study shows spiral sound can shift sideways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-shows-spiral-sound-can-shift-sideways.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new University of Mississippi study shows that some sound waves don\u2019t just move forward\u2014they also move slightly to the side. Understanding this movement could help researchers develop more precise acoustic tools. Likun Zhang, associate professor of physics and astronomy and senior scientist at the National Center for Physical Acoustics, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/wh12-sm3t\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> his team\u2019s study on the behavior of spiral sound waves in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment is the first measurement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-07-3d-acoustic-quantum-hall-states.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">Hall Effect<\/a> as it applies to acoustics. The Hall Effect occurs when something traveling forward\u2014traditionally an electric current\u2014is deflected slightly to the side by an external influence such as a magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout five years ago, our group extended the concept of the Hall Effect to acoustics, where we predicted that this would be the case,\u201d Zhang said. \u201cBut this follow-up is the first time that we\u2019ve been able to say, experimentally, \u2018Here is that shift, and we can prove that it\u2019s there.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new University of Mississippi study shows that some sound waves don\u2019t just move forward\u2014they also move slightly to the side. Understanding this movement could help researchers develop more precise acoustic tools. Likun Zhang, associate professor of physics and astronomy and senior scientist at the National Center for Physical Acoustics, published his team\u2019s study on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233022","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=233022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}