{"id":244403,"date":"2026-09-23T01:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/physicists-crack-the-math-connecting-ultraslow-quantum-magnetism-to-ultrafast-black-hole-physics"},"modified":"2026-09-23T01:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:24:31","slug":"physicists-crack-the-math-connecting-ultraslow-quantum-magnetism-to-ultrafast-black-hole-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/physicists-crack-the-math-connecting-ultraslow-quantum-magnetism-to-ultrafast-black-hole-physics","title":{"rendered":"Physicists crack the math connecting ultraslow quantum magnetism to ultrafast black-hole physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-crack-the-math-connecting-ultraslow-quantum-magnetism-to-ultrafast-black-hole-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team led by University at Buffalo physicists has found a mathematical solution that shows how a frustrated quantum magnet can transition from ultraslow behavior to ultrafast, highly entangled behavior resembling that of a black hole.<\/p>\n<p>Their solution connects spin glasses\u2014states of matter in which atomic magnets point in disordered directions and become effectively frozen in place\u2014to the fast, entangled states of matter described by the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model that\u2019s been used to study black hole physics, quantum chaos and other exotic phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve essentially found the math that describes how matter can go from among the slowest states in quantum dynamics to among the fastest,\u201d says Jamir Marino, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics in the UB College of Arts and Sciences and senior author of the team\u2019s study, which was published Sept. 17 in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/81qf-zd3y\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by University at Buffalo physicists has found a mathematical solution that shows how a frustrated quantum magnet can transition from ultraslow behavior to ultrafast, highly entangled behavior resembling that of a black hole. Their solution connects spin glasses\u2014states of matter in which atomic magnets point in disordered directions and become effectively frozen [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244403","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=244403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}