{"id":30933,"date":"2016-10-10T23:17:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T06:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/physicists-just-witnessed-quasiparticles-forming-for-the-first-time-ever"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:10:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:10:22","slug":"physicists-just-witnessed-quasiparticles-forming-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/physicists-just-witnessed-quasiparticles-forming-for-the-first-time-ever","title":{"rendered":"Physicists just witnessed quasiparticles forming for the first time ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-witnessed-quasiparticles-forming-for-the-first-time-ever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, scientists have observed the formation of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quasiparticle\">quasiparticles<\/a> \u2014 a strange phenomenon observed in certain solids \u2014 in real time, something that physicists have been struggling to do for decades.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just a big deal for the physics world \u2014 it\u2019s an achievement that could change the way we build ultra-fast electronics, and could lead to the development of quantum processors.<\/p>\n<p>But what is a quasiparticle? Rather than being a physical particle, it\u2019s a concept used to describe some of the weird phenomena that happen in pretty fancy setups \u2014 specifically, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/us\/book\/9788876423079\">many-body quantum systems<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solid-state_chemistry\">solid-state materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-witnessed-quasiparticles-forming-for-the-first-time-ever\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-just-witnessed-quasip...-time-ever<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, scientists have observed the formation of quasiparticles \u2014 a strange phenomenon observed in certain solids \u2014 in real time, something that physicists have been struggling to do for decades. It\u2019s not just a big deal for the physics world \u2014 it\u2019s an achievement that could change the way we build ultra-fast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30933","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\/30933","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\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66042,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30933\/revisions\/66042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}