{"id":27612,"date":"2016-07-08T14:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T21:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/atomic-bits-despite-zero-point-energy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:52:11","slug":"atomic-bits-despite-zero-point-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/atomic-bits-despite-zero-point-energy","title":{"rendered":"Atomic bits despite zero-point energy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atomic-bits-despite-zero-point-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So-called \u201czero-point energy\u201d is a term familiar to some cinema lovers or series fans; in the fictional world of animated films such as \u201cThe Incredibles\u201d or the TV series \u201cStargate Atlantis\u201d, it denotes a powerful and virtually inexhaustible energy source.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it could ever be used as such is arguable. Scientists at J\u00fclich have now found out that it plays an important role in the stability of nanomagnets. These are of great technical interest for the magnetic storage of data, but so far have never been sufficiently stable. Researchers are now pointing the way to making it possible to produce nanomagnets with low zero-point energy and thus a higher degree of stability (Nano Letters, \u201cZero-Point Spin-Fluctuations of Single Adatoms\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atomic-bits-despite-zero-point-energy.jpg\" alt=\"Artistic depiction of the magnetic fluctuations (blue arrows)  of a single atom (red ball)  lying on a surface (gray balls)\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p>Artistic depiction of the magnetic fluctuations (blue arrows) of a single atom (red ball) lying on a surface (gray balls).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=43885.php#.V4ASqIVXvNw.facebook\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=43885.php...w.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So-called \u201czero-point energy\u201d is a term familiar to some cinema lovers or series fans; in the fictional world of animated films such as \u201cThe Incredibles\u201d or the TV series \u201cStargate Atlantis\u201d, it denotes a powerful and virtually inexhaustible energy source. Whether it could ever be used as such is arguable. Scientists at J\u00fclich have now [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27612","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66989,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27612\/revisions\/66989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}