{"id":90710,"date":"2019-05-14T14:39:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/physicists-invent-flux-capacitor-break-time-reversal-symmetry"},"modified":"2019-05-14T14:39:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:39:33","slug":"physicists-invent-flux-capacitor-break-time-reversal-symmetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/physicists-invent-flux-capacitor-break-time-reversal-symmetry","title":{"rendered":"Physicists invent flux capacitor, break time-reversal symmetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-invent-flux-capacitor-break-time-reversal-symmetry.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the popular movie franchise \u201cBack to the Future\u201d, an eccentric scientist creates a time machine that runs on a flux capacitor.<\/p>\n<p>Now a group of actual physicists from Australia and Switzerland have proposed a device which uses the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> tunneling of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+flux\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic flux<\/a> around a capacitor, breaking time-reversal symmetry.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published this week in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, proposes a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/new+generation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new generation<\/a> of electronic circulators, which are devices that control the direction in which microwave signals move.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-physicists-flux-capacitor-time-reversal-symmetry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the popular movie franchise \u201cBack to the Future\u201d, an eccentric scientist creates a time machine that runs on a flux capacitor. Now a group of actual physicists from Australia and Switzerland have proposed a device which uses the quantum tunneling of magnetic flux around a capacitor, breaking time-reversal symmetry. The research, published this week [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90710","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=90710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}