{"id":242053,"date":"2026-08-02T07:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/plasmonic-metamaterial-time-crystal"},"modified":"2026-08-02T07:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:20:35","slug":"plasmonic-metamaterial-time-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/plasmonic-metamaterial-time-crystal","title":{"rendered":"Plasmonic metamaterial time crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plasmonic-metamaterial-time-crystal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To achieve the ultra-fast changes needed, they hit the metamaterial with powerful laser pulses. This violently accelerated the material\u2019s free-floating electrons, dynamically altering their energy and making their \u201ceffective mass\u201d shift by up to 80% of their rest mass in fractions of a trillionth of a second. This massive, rapid shift forced the material into a time-crystal state.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A plasmonic metamaterial driven at terahertz frequencies achieves strong, ultrafast temporal modulation and shows a transition to the photonic time crystal regime with reduced plasmonic losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To achieve the ultra-fast changes needed, they hit the metamaterial with powerful laser pulses. This violently accelerated the material\u2019s free-floating electrons, dynamically altering their energy and making their \u201ceffective mass\u201d shift by up to 80% of their rest mass in fractions of a trillionth of a second. This massive, rapid shift forced the material into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242053","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}