{"id":92803,"date":"2019-06-28T02:03:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T09:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/physicists-discover-entirely-new-quantum-states-when-graphene-meets-itself"},"modified":"2019-06-28T02:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T09:03:05","slug":"physicists-discover-entirely-new-quantum-states-when-graphene-meets-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/physicists-discover-entirely-new-quantum-states-when-graphene-meets-itself","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Discover Entirely New Quantum States When Graphene Meets Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-entirely-new-quantum-states-when-graphene-meets-itself2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The super-thin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mit-physicists-have-found-a-new-way-to-unlock-graphene-s-superconductive-power\">\u2019wonder material\u2019 graphene<\/a> has been shaking up science for years with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/graphene-levy-flights-limitless-power-future-electronic-devices\">amazing properties<\/a>, but things get really interesting when you stack this 2D nanomaterial up against itself.<\/p>\n<p>In new experiments, physicists in the US have found that when graphene is assembled in a double-layer vertical stack \u2013 with two adjacent sheets of the material that are almost touching \u2013 the proximity produces quantum states that haven\u2019t been observed before.<\/p>\n<p>These newly measured states, resulting from complex interactions of electrons between the two graphene layers, are examples of what\u2019s called the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fractional_quantum_Hall_effect\">fractional quantum Hall effect<\/a> \u2013 and it\u2019s just the latest example of how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-cram-light-into-smallest-one-atom-space-possible-with-graphene\">physical science gets weird<\/a> when materials effectively only occupy two dimensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The super-thin \u2019wonder material\u2019 graphene has been shaking up science for years with its amazing properties, but things get really interesting when you stack this 2D nanomaterial up against itself. In new experiments, physicists in the US have found that when graphene is assembled in a double-layer vertical stack \u2013 with two adjacent sheets of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92803","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=92803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}