{"id":35421,"date":"2017-03-17T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/electrons-have-been-caught-disappearing-and-reappearing-between-atomic-layers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:08:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:08:49","slug":"electrons-have-been-caught-disappearing-and-reappearing-between-atomic-layers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/electrons-have-been-caught-disappearing-and-reappearing-between-atomic-layers","title":{"rendered":"Electrons Have Been Caught Disappearing and Reappearing Between Atomic Layers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electrons-have-been-caught-disappearing-and-reappearing-between-atomic-layers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientist have spotted a strange type of quantum movement occurring in electrons travelling between the atomic layers of a material.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of travelling from the top to the bottom layer through the middle, the electrons were caught disappearing from the top layer and reappearing in the bottom letter a fraction of a second later \u2014 with no trace of them existing in between.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElectrons can show up on the first floor, then the third floor, without ever having been on the second floor,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-03-quantum-movement-electrons-atomic-layers.html\">said lead researcher Hui Zhao<\/a> from the University of Kansas.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/electrons-have-been-caught-disappearing-and-reappearing-between-atomic-layers\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/electrons-have-been-caught-disap...mic-layers<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist have spotted a strange type of quantum movement occurring in electrons travelling between the atomic layers of a material. Instead of travelling from the top to the bottom layer through the middle, the electrons were caught disappearing from the top layer and reappearing in the bottom letter a fraction of a second later \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35421","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58378,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35421\/revisions\/58378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}