{"id":93994,"date":"2019-07-21T22:07:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/physicists-just-discovered-the-first-elusive-candidate-for-a-3d-quantum-spin-liquid"},"modified":"2019-07-21T22:07:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:07:07","slug":"physicists-just-discovered-the-first-elusive-candidate-for-a-3d-quantum-spin-liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/physicists-just-discovered-the-first-elusive-candidate-for-a-3d-quantum-spin-liquid","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Discovered The First Elusive Candidate For a 3D Quantum Spin Liquid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-discovered-the-first-elusive-candidate-for-a-3d-quantum-spin-liquid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists in the US have discovered a material that could qualify as the first known three-dimensional example of a quantum spin liquid \u2014 an exotic theoretical phase of matter.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum spin liquids were first predicted by scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-discovered-a-new-state-of-matter\">back in the 1970s<\/a>. While researchers have studied them for decades, these phases largely remain a theoretical concept, although that\u2019s not the same as saying they don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p>To confuse you further, quantum spin liquids aren\u2019t actually liquids, but a kind of solid, magnetic matter that exhibits a strange form of behaviour at the subatomic particle level, specifically in terms of its electrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists in the US have discovered a material that could qualify as the first known three-dimensional example of a quantum spin liquid \u2014 an exotic theoretical phase of matter. Quantum spin liquids were first predicted by scientists back in the 1970s. While researchers have studied them for decades, these phases largely remain a theoretical concept, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93994","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=93994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}