{"id":245536,"date":"2026-10-17T01:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/even-or-odd-numbers-a-single-molecule-makes-all-the-difference-in-the-quantum-world"},"modified":"2026-10-17T01:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:30:27","slug":"even-or-odd-numbers-a-single-molecule-makes-all-the-difference-in-the-quantum-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/even-or-odd-numbers-a-single-molecule-makes-all-the-difference-in-the-quantum-world","title":{"rendered":"Even or odd numbers: A single molecule makes all the difference in the quantum world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/even-or-odd-numbers-a-single-molecule-makes-all-the-difference-in-the-quantum-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers in the Quantum Detection Microscopy group at CIC nanoGUNE, in collaboration with chemists at CiQUS of the University of Santiago de Compostela, have demonstrated that adding or removing a single molecule from a quantum chain can fundamentally change its interaction with a superconductor.<\/p>\n<p>The key lies in a property as simple as parity\u2014that is, whether the chain contains an even or odd number of units. While chains with an odd number interact magnetically with the superconductor, those with an even number do not. The results of this study have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-026-11117-y\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers in the Quantum Detection Microscopy group at CIC nanoGUNE, in collaboration with chemists at CiQUS of the University of Santiago de Compostela, have demonstrated that adding or removing a single molecule from a quantum chain can fundamentally change its interaction with a superconductor. The key lies in a property as simple as parity\u2014that [\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-245536","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\/245536","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=245536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}