{"id":236507,"date":"2026-05-05T02:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/time-varying-magnetic-fields-can-engineer-exotic-quantum-matter"},"modified":"2026-05-05T02:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:37:14","slug":"time-varying-magnetic-fields-can-engineer-exotic-quantum-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/time-varying-magnetic-fields-can-engineer-exotic-quantum-matter","title":{"rendered":"Time-varying magnetic fields can engineer exotic quantum matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-varying-magnetic-fields-can-engineer-exotic-quantum-matter3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum technology has promising potential to revolutionize how large and complex amounts of information are processed. While already in use primarily in laboratory and research settings globally, quantum technologies are in a transition phase for broader industry applications across many economic sectors.<\/p>\n<p>In researching fundamental aspects of quantum physics, or the behavior of nature at the smallest scales\u2014involving atoms, electrons and photons\u2014a study led by Cal Poly Physics Department Lecturer Ian Powell analyzed how a changing magnetic field can make matter behave in unusual ways.<\/p>\n<p>Powell and student researcher Louis Buchalter, who graduated with a Cal Poly bachelor\u2019s degree in physics in 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/c28t-x1dh\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> the article \u201cFlux-Switching Floquet Engineering\u201d in the journal <i>Physical Review B<\/i>, highlighting how changing magnetic fields over time can create quantum states that do not exist in any stationary material (remaining in the same state as time elapses).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum technology has promising potential to revolutionize how large and complex amounts of information are processed. While already in use primarily in laboratory and research settings globally, quantum technologies are in a transition phase for broader industry applications across many economic sectors. In researching fundamental aspects of quantum physics, or the behavior of nature at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,38,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236507","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=236507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}