{"id":34267,"date":"2017-02-07T23:45:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T07:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/for-the-first-time-scientists-have-observed-a-quantum-phase-transition"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:44:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:44:28","slug":"for-the-first-time-scientists-have-observed-a-quantum-phase-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/for-the-first-time-scientists-have-observed-a-quantum-phase-transition","title":{"rendered":"For the First Time Scientists Have Observed a Quantum Phase Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-scientists-have-observed-a-quantum-phase-transition.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists were able to rig up a system in which they could view a \u201cphoton-blockade breakdown\u201d where the system switched from opaque to transparent.<\/li>\n<li>This discovery has implications in both the development of advanced computer memory systems and better quantum simulations in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the first time, physicists have experimentally observed a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phase_transition\">first-order phase transition<\/a> occur in a quantum system \u2013 verifying years of theoretical predictions.<\/p>\n<p>Phase transitions are something that we see on a daily basis when our ice melts into water, or steam evaporates from a boiling kettle. While these transitions are easy for us to observe, phase transitions also happen on the very tiny, quantum-scale, where they play an important role in physics. But, up until now, no one had ever witnessed one experimentally.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/for-the-first-time-scientists-have-observed-a-quantum-phase-transition\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/for-the-first-time-scientists-have-obse...ransition\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief Scientists were able to rig up a system in which they could view a \u201cphoton-blockade breakdown\u201d where the system switched from opaque to transparent. This discovery has implications in both the development of advanced computer memory systems and better quantum simulations in the future. For the first time, physicists have experimentally observed a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34267","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58830,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34267\/revisions\/58830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}