{"id":240504,"date":"2026-07-09T03:17:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/fractional-fermi-sea-physicists-discover-a-new-phase-of-matter-beyond-established-theory"},"modified":"2026-07-09T03:17:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:17:59","slug":"fractional-fermi-sea-physicists-discover-a-new-phase-of-matter-beyond-established-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/fractional-fermi-sea-physicists-discover-a-new-phase-of-matter-beyond-established-theory","title":{"rendered":"Fractional Fermi Sea: Physicists Discover a New Phase of Matter Beyond Established Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fractional-fermi-sea-physicists-discover-a-new-phase-of-matter-beyond-established-theory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have engineered a never-before-seen quantum state, uncovering a new phase of matter with hidden order beyond conventional theory.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have shown that an unusual quantum state known as a \u201cfractional Fermi sea\u201d can be deliberately created, opening the door to a previously unknown phase of matter. The work, published in Physical Review Letters, was carried out by the N\u00e4gerl group together with theoretical collaborator Alvise Bastianello of the CNRS and Universit\u00e9 Paris-Dauphine. The study provides the theoretical foundation for recent experimental work led by Hans-Christoph N\u00e4gerl\u2019s group in the Department of Experimental Physics.<\/p>\n<p>Creating a New Quantum State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have engineered a never-before-seen quantum state, uncovering a new phase of matter with hidden order beyond conventional theory. Researchers have shown that an unusual quantum state known as a \u201cfractional Fermi sea\u201d can be deliberately created, opening the door to a previously unknown phase of matter. The work, published in Physical Review Letters, was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240504","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=240504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}