{"id":24259,"date":"2016-04-05T00:47:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T07:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/scientists-have-just-discovered-a-new-state-of-matter"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:03:53","slug":"scientists-have-just-discovered-a-new-state-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/scientists-have-just-discovered-a-new-state-of-matter","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have just discovered a new state of matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-just-discovered-a-new-state-of-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have just discovered evidence of a mysterious new state of matter in a real material. The state is known as \u2018quantum spin liquid\u2019 and it causes electrons \u2014 one of the fundamental, indivisible building blocks of matter \u2014 to break down into smaller <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quasiparticle\">quasiparticles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists had first predicted the existence of this state of matter in certain magnetic materials 40 years ago, but despite multiple hints of its existence, they\u2019ve never been able to detect evidence of it in nature. So it\u2019s pretty exciting that they\u2019ve now caught a glimpse of quantum spin liquid, and the bizarre <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fermion\">fermions<\/a> that accompany it, in a two-dimensional, graphene-like material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a new quantum state of matter, which has been predicted but hasn\u2019t been seen before,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/04\/160404111559.htm\">said one of the researchers, Johannes Knolle<\/a>, from the University of Cambridge in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-discovered-a-new-state-of-matter\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-discovered-a-new-state-of-matter<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have just discovered evidence of a mysterious new state of matter in a real material. The state is known as \u2018quantum spin liquid\u2019 and it causes electrons \u2014 one of the fundamental, indivisible building blocks of matter \u2014 to break down into smaller quasiparticles. Scientists had first predicted the existence of this state of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24259","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\/24259","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67825,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24259\/revisions\/67825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}