{"id":87496,"date":"2019-02-06T14:24:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T22:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/controllable-electron-flow-in-quantum-wires"},"modified":"2019-02-06T14:24:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T22:24:48","slug":"controllable-electron-flow-in-quantum-wires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/controllable-electron-flow-in-quantum-wires","title":{"rendered":"Controllable electron flow in quantum wires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/controllable-electron-flow-in-quantum-wires3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Princeton researchers have demonstrated a new way of making controllable \u201cquantum wires\u201d in the presence of a magnetic field, according to a new study published in Nature.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers detected channels of conducting electrons that form between two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> states on the surface of a bismuth crystal subjected to a high magnetic field. These two states consist of electrons moving in elliptical orbits with different orientations.<\/p>\n<p>To the team\u2019s surprise, they found that the current flow in these channels can be turned on and off, making these channels a new type of controllable quantum wire.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-02-electron-quantum-wires.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;02-electron-quantum-wires.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Princeton researchers have demonstrated a new way of making controllable \u201cquantum wires\u201d in the presence of a magnetic field, according to a new study published in Nature. The researchers detected channels of conducting electrons that form between two quantum states on the surface of a bismuth crystal subjected to a high magnetic field. These two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87496","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}