{"id":84537,"date":"2018-11-06T05:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/in-materials-hit-with-light-individual-atoms-and-vibrations-take-disorderly-paths"},"modified":"2018-11-06T05:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T13:42:22","slug":"in-materials-hit-with-light-individual-atoms-and-vibrations-take-disorderly-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/in-materials-hit-with-light-individual-atoms-and-vibrations-take-disorderly-paths","title":{"rendered":"In materials hit with light, individual atoms and vibrations take disorderly paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-materials-hit-with-light-individual-atoms-and-vibrations-take-disorderly-paths.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019Until now, scientists assumed this all happened in a smooth, coordinated way. \u2018\u2019\u2026 silly scientists \ud83e\udd14\ud83d\ude48\ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Hitting a material with laser light sends vibrations rippling through its latticework of atoms, and at the same time can nudge the lattice into a new configuration with potentially useful properties \u2013 turning an insulator into a metal, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, scientists assumed this all happened in a smooth, coordinated way. But two new studies show it doesn\u2019t: When you look beyond the average response of atoms and vibrations to see what they do individually, the response, they found, is disorderly.<\/p>\n<p>Atoms don\u2019t move smoothly into their new positions, like band members marching down a field; they stagger around like partiers leaving a bar at closing time.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-materials-individual-atoms-vibrations-disorderly.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-materials-individual-atoms...derly.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018\u2019Until now, scientists assumed this all happened in a smooth, coordinated way. \u2018\u2019\u2026 silly scientists \ud83e\udd14\ud83d\ude48\ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2642\ufe0f. Hitting a material with laser light sends vibrations rippling through its latticework of atoms, and at the same time can nudge the lattice into a new configuration with potentially useful properties \u2013 turning an insulator into a metal, for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84537","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}