{"id":240893,"date":"2026-07-15T04:17:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/researchers-define-new-frontier-in-quantum-materials"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:17:04","slug":"researchers-define-new-frontier-in-quantum-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/researchers-define-new-frontier-in-quantum-materials","title":{"rendered":"Researchers define new frontier in quantum materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-define-new-frontier-in-quantum-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at City College of New York physicist Vinod M. Menon\u2019s Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP) have outlined an emerging frontier in quantum materials: atomically thin systems in which light, magnetism and electric charge are strongly intertwined. This rapidly evolving field could enable next-generation optoelectronic and quantum technologies leveraging the coupled dynamics of light, charge and spin.<\/p>\n<p>A review article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-026-02636-0\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Materials<\/i><\/a> titled \u201cExcitons in van der Waals magnetic materials\u201d surveys recent advances by the CCNY team in layered magnetic semiconductors, where light-generated electronic excitations known as excitons interact with magnetic order and spin waves known as magnons.<\/p>\n<p>Excitons form when light excites an electron within a material, leaving behind a positively charged \u201chole.\u201d The electron and hole remain bound together as a neutral but optically active particle. Magnons, by contrast, are collective ripples in a material\u2019s magnetic order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at City College of New York physicist Vinod M. Menon\u2019s Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP) have outlined an emerging frontier in quantum materials: atomically thin systems in which light, magnetism and electric charge are strongly intertwined. This rapidly evolving field could enable next-generation optoelectronic and quantum technologies leveraging the coupled dynamics of [\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-240893","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\/240893","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=240893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}