{"id":82531,"date":"2018-09-13T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/scientists-discover-a-tuneable-novel-quantum-state-of-matter"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:18:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:18:06","slug":"scientists-discover-a-tuneable-novel-quantum-state-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/scientists-discover-a-tuneable-novel-quantum-state-of-matter","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover a \u2018tuneable\u2019 novel quantum state of matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-a-tuneable-novel-quantum-state-of-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum particles can be difficult to characterize, and almost impossible to control if they strongly interact with each other\u2014until now.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers led by Princeton physicist Zahid Hasan has discovered a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> state of matter that can be \u201ctuned\u201d at will\u2014and it\u2019s 10 times more tuneable than existing theories can explain. This level of manipulability opens enormous possibilities for next-generation nanotechnologies and quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found a new control knob for the quantum topological world,\u201d said Hasan, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics. \u201cWe expect this is tip of the iceberg. There will be a new subfield of materials or physics grown out of this. \u2026 This would be a fantastic playground for nanoscale engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-09-scientists-tuneable-quantum-state.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;09-scientists-tuneable-quantum-state.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum particles can be difficult to characterize, and almost impossible to control if they strongly interact with each other\u2014until now. An international team of researchers led by Princeton physicist Zahid Hasan has discovered a quantum state of matter that can be \u201ctuned\u201d at will\u2014and it\u2019s 10 times more tuneable than existing theories can explain. This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82531","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82658,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82531\/revisions\/82658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}