{"id":93446,"date":"2019-07-11T11:03:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T18:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/scientists-discover-how-to-lock-heat-in-place-using-quantum-mechanics"},"modified":"2019-07-11T11:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T18:03:35","slug":"scientists-discover-how-to-lock-heat-in-place-using-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/scientists-discover-how-to-lock-heat-in-place-using-quantum-mechanics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover how to \u2018lock\u2019 heat in place using quantum mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-how-to-lock-heat-in-place-using-quantum-mechanics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A ground-breaking study conducted by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has revealed a method of using quantum mechanical wave theories to \u201clock\u201d heat into a fixed position.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, a source of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heat\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heat<\/a> diffuses through a conductive material until it dissipates, but Associate Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NUS Faculty of Engineering and his team used the principle of anti-parity-time (APT) symmetry to show that it is possible to confine the heat to a small region of a metal ring without it spreading over time.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, this newly demonstrated phenomenon could be used to control <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heat+diffusion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heat diffusion<\/a> in sophisticated ways and optimize efficacy in systems that need cooling. The results of the study were published on 12 April 2019 in the journal Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ground-breaking study conducted by researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has revealed a method of using quantum mechanical wave theories to \u201clock\u201d heat into a fixed position. Ordinarily, a source of heat diffuses through a conductive material until it dissipates, but Associate Professor Cheng-Wei Qiu from the Department of Electrical and Computer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93446","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=93446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}