{"id":245472,"date":"2026-10-16T01:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/laser-pulses-bring-order-to-a-quantum-materials-tiny-electrical-regions"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:34:34","slug":"laser-pulses-bring-order-to-a-quantum-materials-tiny-electrical-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/laser-pulses-bring-order-to-a-quantum-materials-tiny-electrical-regions","title":{"rendered":"Laser pulses bring order to a quantum material\u2019s tiny electrical regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-pulses-bring-order-to-a-quantum-materials-tiny-electrical-regions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at Auburn University have used flashes of laser light to bring order to tiny electrically charged \u201cislands\u201d inside a crystal. The discovery helps answer a decades-old question about how the material organizes itself and shows how light could be used to control its behavior\u2014a step toward exploring new technologies for processing and storing information.<\/p>\n<p>The research was led by Wencan Jin, the Thomas and Jean Walter endowed associate professor in Auburn\u2019s Department of Physics, and graduate student Mohamed Kandil.<\/p>\n<p>Their study, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/nx3d-1mqf\" target=\"_blank\">Optical Poling of a Quantum Ferroelectric Metal across the Order-Disorder Phase Transition<\/a>,\u201d was selected as an Editors\u2019 Suggestion in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>. Collaborators at Japan\u2019s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology grew the crystals used in the experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists at Auburn University have used flashes of laser light to bring order to tiny electrically charged \u201cislands\u201d inside a crystal. The discovery helps answer a decades-old question about how the material organizes itself and shows how light could be used to control its behavior\u2014a step toward exploring new technologies for processing and storing information. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245472","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=245472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}