{"id":245843,"date":"2026-10-23T01:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/quantum-interference-traps-electron-waves-in-metal-for-first-time"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:52:07","slug":"quantum-interference-traps-electron-waves-in-metal-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/quantum-interference-traps-electron-waves-in-metal-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Quantum interference traps electron waves in metal for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ever since quantum mechanics first described particles, like electrons, as rippling waves, researchers have wondered if those waves could be trapped in place. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adt9825\" target=\"_blank\">Writing<\/a> today in <i>Science<\/i> a century later, a team of Columbia University researchers reports waves of electrons becoming trapped for the first time in a metal called Pd\u2085AlI\u2082<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuantum mechanics predicts that an electron wave can, theoretically, remain trapped even when there are infinitely many paths for it to escape. This effect is known from light waves, but it has never been seen before for electrons,\u201d said Raquel Queiroz, a theoretical physicist at Columbia. It was a surprising discovery, and one that opens new possibilities for manipulating quantum states in metals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since quantum mechanics first described particles, like electrons, as rippling waves, researchers have wondered if those waves could be trapped in place. Writing today in Science a century later, a team of Columbia University researchers reports waves of electrons becoming trapped for the first time in a metal called Pd\u2085AlI\u2082 \u201cQuantum mechanics predicts that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245843","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=245843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}