{"id":237112,"date":"2026-05-14T02:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/quantum-geometry-provides-theoretical-limits-on-measurable-properties-of-solids"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:30:34","slug":"quantum-geometry-provides-theoretical-limits-on-measurable-properties-of-solids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/quantum-geometry-provides-theoretical-limits-on-measurable-properties-of-solids","title":{"rendered":"Quantum geometry provides theoretical limits on measurable properties of solids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-geometry-provides-theoretical-limits-on-measurable-properties-of-solids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two RIKEN physicists have established new theoretical limits for experimentally measurable quantities by viewing solids through a lens of quantum geometry. Their results shed light both on the physics of solids and on quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>The usual approach to studying a solid in physics is to consider all the interactions acting between its atoms or molecules and then use the laws of quantum mechanics to determine the solid\u2019s properties. But a new methodology involves considering the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-12-approach-possibilities-quantum-geometry-solids.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">quantum geometry<\/a>\u201d of a solid. It entails studying the geometric structures that arise not in physical space, but in the space of quantum states.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key concepts in this approach is the quantum geometric tensor\u2014a matrix that contains information about the distances and curvatures of quantum states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two RIKEN physicists have established new theoretical limits for experimentally measurable quantities by viewing solids through a lens of quantum geometry. Their results shed light both on the physics of solids and on quantum mechanics. The usual approach to studying a solid in physics is to consider all the interactions acting between its atoms or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237112","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=237112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}