{"id":76919,"date":"2018-03-14T21:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T04:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/researchers-demonstrate-existence-of-new-form-of-electronic-matter"},"modified":"2018-03-14T21:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T04:03:01","slug":"researchers-demonstrate-existence-of-new-form-of-electronic-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/researchers-demonstrate-existence-of-new-form-of-electronic-matter","title":{"rendered":"Researchers demonstrate existence of new form of electronic matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-demonstrate-existence-of-new-form-of-electronic-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have produced a \u201chuman scale\u201d demonstration of a new phase of matter called quadrupole topological insulators that was recently predicted using theoretical physics. These are the first experimental findings to validate this theory.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers report their findings in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s work with QTIs was born out of the decade-old understanding of the properties of a class of materials called topological insulators. \u201cTIs are electrical insulators on the inside and conductors along their boundaries, and may hold great potential for helping build low-power, robust computers and devices, all defined at the atomic scale,\u201d said mechanical science and engineering professor and senior investigator Gaurav Bahl.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-03-electronic.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;03-electronic.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have produced a \u201chuman scale\u201d demonstration of a new phase of matter called quadrupole topological insulators that was recently predicted using theoretical physics. These are the first experimental findings to validate this theory. The researchers report their findings in the journal Nature. The team\u2019s work with QTIs was born out of the decade-old understanding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76919","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=76919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}