{"id":242738,"date":"2026-08-15T01:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/electrons-mysteriously-slow-to-a-crawl-inside-this-magnetic-material"},"modified":"2026-08-15T01:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:16:44","slug":"electrons-mysteriously-slow-to-a-crawl-inside-this-magnetic-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/electrons-mysteriously-slow-to-a-crawl-inside-this-magnetic-material","title":{"rendered":"Electrons Mysteriously Slow to a Crawl Inside This Magnetic Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrons-mysteriously-slow-to-a-crawl-inside-this-magnetic-material2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inside an unusual magnetic material, electrons are doing something physicists did not expect: slowing to a near crawl while moving together in quantum lockstep.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A team at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-chicago\/\">University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME)<\/a> found that electrons in Fe5GeTe2 can enter a charge-ordered state where they move collectively, remain quantum coherent, and travel far more slowly than expected.<\/p>\n<p>The result could force scientists to rethink how magnetism works in this material. It may also offer a new way to store information by switching between distinct electronic and magnetic states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside an unusual magnetic material, electrons are doing something physicists did not expect: slowing to a near crawl while moving together in quantum lockstep. A team at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) found that electrons in Fe5GeTe2 can enter a charge-ordered state where they move collectively, remain quantum coherent, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242738","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=242738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}