{"id":30208,"date":"2016-09-15T19:18:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T02:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/for-first-time-individual-atoms-seen-keeping-away-from-each-other-or-bunching-up-as-pairs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:15:33","slug":"for-first-time-individual-atoms-seen-keeping-away-from-each-other-or-bunching-up-as-pairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/for-first-time-individual-atoms-seen-keeping-away-from-each-other-or-bunching-up-as-pairs","title":{"rendered":"For first time, individual atoms seen keeping away from each other or bunching up as pairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-first-time-individual-atoms-seen-keeping-away-from-each-other-or-bunching-up-as-pairs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have identified a new method in understanding superconductors, and what one should do to make higher-temperature superconductors even at room temperature. This is certainly a huge deal as we continue to look at ways to build QC machines and devices. Something that my friends at Google should be interested in.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>\u201cLearning from this model, we can understand what\u2019s really going on in these superconductors, and what one should do to make higher-temperature superconductors, approaching hopefully room temperature,\u201d says Martin Zwierlein, professor of physics and principal investigator in MIT\u2019s Research Laboratory of Electronics. Credit: Illustration: Christine Daniloff\/MIT<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you bottle up a gas and try to image its atoms using today\u2019s most powerful microscopes, you will see little more than a shadowy blur. Atoms zip around at lightning speeds and are difficult to pin down at ambient temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>If, however, these atoms are plunged to ultracold temperatures, they slow to a crawl, and scientists can start to study how they can form exotic states of matter, such as superfluids, superconductors, and quantum magnets.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencebulletin.org\/archives\/5288.html\">http:\/\/sciencebulletin.org\/archives\/5288.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have identified a new method in understanding superconductors, and what one should do to make higher-temperature superconductors even at room temperature. This is certainly a huge deal as we continue to look at ways to build QC machines and devices. Something that my friends at Google should be interested in. \u201cLearning from this model, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66232,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30208\/revisions\/66232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}