{"id":24262,"date":"2016-04-05T01:47:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/physicists-just-discovered-a-new-state-of-matter-called-quantum-spin-liquid"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:34:11","slug":"physicists-just-discovered-a-new-state-of-matter-called-quantum-spin-liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/physicists-just-discovered-a-new-state-of-matter-called-quantum-spin-liquid","title":{"rendered":"Physicists just discovered a new state of matter called \u2018quantum spin liquid\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-discovered-a-new-state-of-matter-called-quantum-spin-liquid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers with the University of Cambridge say they have the first real evidence of a new state of matter, some 40 years after it was first theorized.<\/p>\n<p>Known as \u201cquantum spin liquid,\u201d the matter states causes normally unbreakable electrons to fracture into pieces, called \u201cMajorana fermions.\u201d These fermions are an important discovery: Physicists believe the material is crucial to further develop quantum computing. Computers employing Majorana fermions would be able to carry out calculations beyond the scope of modern computers quickly, they say.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum spin liquid explains some of the odd behaviors inside magnetic materials. In these materials, the electrons should behave like small bar magnets, all aligning towards magnetic north when a material is cooled. But not all magnetic materials do this \u2014 if the material contains quantum spin liquid, the electrons don\u2019t all line up and become entangled.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/physicists-just-discovered-state-matter-204420693.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/physicists-just-discovered-state-...20693.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers with the University of Cambridge say they have the first real evidence of a new state of matter, some 40 years after it was first theorized. Known as \u201cquantum spin liquid,\u201d the matter states causes normally unbreakable electrons to fracture into pieces, called \u201cMajorana fermions.\u201d These fermions are an important discovery: Physicists believe the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24262","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62182,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24262\/revisions\/62182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}