{"id":241350,"date":"2026-07-22T10:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-first-room-temperature-quantum-material-of-its-kind-is-spun-from-atoms-of-gold"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:01:20","slug":"the-first-room-temperature-quantum-material-of-its-kind-is-spun-from-atoms-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-first-room-temperature-quantum-material-of-its-kind-is-spun-from-atoms-of-gold","title":{"rendered":"The First Room-Temperature Quantum Material of Its Kind Is Spun From Atoms of Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-room-temperature-quantum-material-of-its-kind-is-spun-from-atoms-of-gold.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Materials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-discover-new-class-of-quantum-states-in-graphene\">in a quantum state<\/a> come with exotic properties that bend the laws of physics and offer huge potential to scientists \u2013 but they\u2019re usually also incredibly delicate, and require <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-set-a-new-world-record-for-superconductors\">ultra-low temperatures<\/a> to exist and function.<\/p>\n<p>That presents a problem when it comes to making the most of these materials and their characteristics: they need to move out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/2d-supersolid-has-been-produced-for-the-first-time-and-it-s-incredibly-weird\">large lab refrigerators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re now another step towards that being possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials in a quantum state come with exotic properties that bend the laws of physics and offer huge potential to scientists \u2013 but they\u2019re usually also incredibly delicate, and require ultra-low temperatures to exist and function. That presents a problem when it comes to making the most of these materials and their characteristics: they need [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241350","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\/241350","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}