{"id":238612,"date":"2026-06-09T02:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/research-uncovers-novel-electronic-properties-in-quantum-material"},"modified":"2026-06-09T02:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:41:11","slug":"research-uncovers-novel-electronic-properties-in-quantum-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/research-uncovers-novel-electronic-properties-in-quantum-material","title":{"rendered":"Research uncovers novel electronic properties in quantum material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-uncovers-novel-electronic-properties-in-quantum-material.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida State University physicists are part of a team that has discovered unusual superconducting states in parts of graphene, with the potential to drive unexpected quantum technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor of Physics Cyprian Lewandowski and postdoctoral researcher Phong V\u00f5 Ti\u1ebfn are part of an international collaboration that has uncovered new aspects of superconductivity and topology in rhombohedral graphene, a system comprising just a few layers of carbon atoms stacked like the treads of a staircase in a shape known as chiral stacking. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-026-03277-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Physics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rhombohedral graphene system seems to capture many of the intriguing electronic phenomena that scientists have seen previously in other atomically thin systems, but they were previously not as ideal for technical applications because of the intrinsic complexity of the devices or replicability issues,\u201d Lewandowski said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida State University physicists are part of a team that has discovered unusual superconducting states in parts of graphene, with the potential to drive unexpected quantum technologies. Assistant Professor of Physics Cyprian Lewandowski and postdoctoral researcher Phong V\u00f5 Ti\u1ebfn are part of an international collaboration that has uncovered new aspects of superconductivity and topology in [\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-238612","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\/238612","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=238612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}