{"id":234030,"date":"2026-03-25T03:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/boron-arsenide-semiconductor-sets-record-in-quantum-vibrations"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:25:25","slug":"boron-arsenide-semiconductor-sets-record-in-quantum-vibrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/boron-arsenide-semiconductor-sets-record-in-quantum-vibrations","title":{"rendered":"Boron arsenide semiconductor sets record in quantum vibrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.boron-arsenide-semiconductor-sets-record-in-quantum-vibrations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may not be able to hear it, but all solid materials make a sound. In fact, atoms\u2014bound in lattices of chemical bonds\u2014are never silent nor still: Under the placid surface of each and every object in our surroundings, a low hum hovers or a high-energy squeak titters.<\/p>\n<p>As atoms vibrate in their lattices, they do so by either all moving in the same direction, in which case their collective vibration shows up as a low humming sound, or by moving in opposite directions from one another, giving rise to an energetic vibration that registers as a bright squeak or titter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not be able to hear it, but all solid materials make a sound. In fact, atoms\u2014bound in lattices of chemical bonds\u2014are never silent nor still: Under the placid surface of each and every object in our surroundings, a low hum hovers or a high-energy squeak titters. As atoms vibrate in their lattices, they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234030","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=234030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}