{"id":94387,"date":"2019-08-02T18:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T01:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/turning-water-into-ice-in-the-quantum-realm"},"modified":"2019-08-02T18:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T01:42:59","slug":"turning-water-into-ice-in-the-quantum-realm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/turning-water-into-ice-in-the-quantum-realm","title":{"rendered":"Turning water into ice in the quantum realm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/turning-water-into-ice-in-the-quantum-realm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you pop a tray of water into the freezer, you get ice cubes. Now, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Toronto have achieved a similar transition using clouds of ultracold atoms.<\/p>\n<p>In a study that will appear August 2 in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, the team discovered that it could nudge these <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum materials<\/a> to undergo transitions between \u201cdynamical phases\u201d\u2014essentially, jumping between two states in which the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/atoms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">atoms<\/a> behave in completely different ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis happens abruptly, and it resembles the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/phase+transitions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">phase transitions<\/a> we see in systems like water becoming ice,\u201d said study co-author Ana Maria Rey. \u201cBut unlike that tray of ice cubes in the freezer, these phases don\u2019t exist in equilibrium. Instead, atoms are constantly shifting and evolving over time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you pop a tray of water into the freezer, you get ice cubes. Now, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Toronto have achieved a similar transition using clouds of ultracold atoms. In a study that will appear August 2 in the journal Science Advances, the team discovered that it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94387","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\/94387","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}