{"id":35017,"date":"2017-03-03T04:04:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T12:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/researchers-create-new-form-of-matter-supersolid-is-crystalline-and-superfluid-at-the-same-time"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:39","slug":"researchers-create-new-form-of-matter-supersolid-is-crystalline-and-superfluid-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/researchers-create-new-form-of-matter-supersolid-is-crystalline-and-superfluid-at-the-same-time","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create new form of matter\u2014supersolid is crystalline and superfluid at the same time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-new-form-of-matter-supersolid-is-crystalline-and-superfluid-at-the-same-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT physicists have created a new form of matter, a supersolid, which combines the properties of solids with those of superfluids.<\/p>\n<p>By using lasers to manipulate a superfluid gas known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, the team was able to coax the condensate into a quantum phase of matter that has a rigid structure\u2014like a solid\u2014and can flow without viscosity\u2014a key characteristic of a superfluid. Studies into this apparently contradictory phase of matter could yield deeper insights into superfluids and superconductors, which are important for improvements in technologies such as superconducting magnets and sensors, as well as efficient energy transport. The researchers report their results this week in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is counterintuitive to have a material which combines superfluidity and solidity,\u201d says team leader Wolfgang Ketterle, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at MIT. \u201cIf your coffee was superfluid and you stirred it, it would continue to spin around forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-03-mattersupersolid-crystalline-superfluid.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;03-mattersupersolid-crystalline-superfluid.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT physicists have created a new form of matter, a supersolid, which combines the properties of solids with those of superfluids. By using lasers to manipulate a superfluid gas known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, the team was able to coax the condensate into a quantum phase of matter that has a rigid structure\u2014like a solid\u2014and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35017","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=35017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58520,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35017\/revisions\/58520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}