{"id":246188,"date":"2026-10-30T03:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/terahertz-light-distinguishes-two-groups-of-particles-trapped-inside-superconducting-vortices"},"modified":"2026-10-30T03:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:53:21","slug":"terahertz-light-distinguishes-two-groups-of-particles-trapped-inside-superconducting-vortices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/terahertz-light-distinguishes-two-groups-of-particles-trapped-inside-superconducting-vortices","title":{"rendered":"Terahertz light distinguishes two groups of particles trapped inside superconducting vortices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scientists at Rutgers and in Estonia have used invisible light to look into tiny magnetic whirlpools, called vortices, inside a superconductor, revealing details that could help researchers develop better materials for carrying electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Their <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/wrds-99zb\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, distinguishes two groups of particles trapped within those vortices and measures properties that conventional techniques couldn\u2019t readily separate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo improve superconductors, scientists need to understand what vortices contain and how they behave,\u201d said Girsh Blumberg, a distinguished professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the study. \u201cThis study provides a new way to look inside them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Rutgers and in Estonia have used invisible light to look into tiny magnetic whirlpools, called vortices, inside a superconductor, revealing details that could help researchers develop better materials for carrying electricity. Their study, published in Physical Review Letters, distinguishes two groups of particles trapped within those vortices and measures properties that conventional techniques [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246188","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=246188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}