{"id":243963,"date":"2026-09-12T01:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/physicists-blasted-a-quantum-material-with-lasers-then-watched-it-rebuild-itself"},"modified":"2026-09-12T01:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:29:12","slug":"physicists-blasted-a-quantum-material-with-lasers-then-watched-it-rebuild-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/physicists-blasted-a-quantum-material-with-lasers-then-watched-it-rebuild-itself","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Blasted a Quantum Material With Lasers \u2014 Then Watched It Rebuild Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-blasted-a-quantum-material-with-lasers-then-watched-it-rebuild-itself.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We already have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\">quantum computers<\/a>, but they\u2019re highly specialized, not particularly practical, and only cover a fraction of the performance potential that scientists think this technology could ultimately unlock.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum materials can host several competing electronic states, and figuring out how those states form is a longstanding challenge \u2013 which brings us to a new study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41567-026-03382-5\"><em>Nature Physics<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study by an international team of researchers investigates how two <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charge_density_wave\">charge density wave<\/a> (CDW) phases can emerge and co-exist in the same material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We already have quantum computers, but they\u2019re highly specialized, not particularly practical, and only cover a fraction of the performance potential that scientists think this technology could ultimately unlock. Quantum materials can host several competing electronic states, and figuring out how those states form is a longstanding challenge \u2013 which brings us to a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243963","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=243963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}