{"id":96452,"date":"2019-09-19T23:25:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/physicists-discover-topological-behavior-of-electrons-in-3d-magnetic-material"},"modified":"2019-09-19T23:25:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:25:21","slug":"physicists-discover-topological-behavior-of-electrons-in-3d-magnetic-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/physicists-discover-topological-behavior-of-electrons-in-3d-magnetic-material","title":{"rendered":"Physicists discover topological behavior of electrons in 3D magnetic material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-topological-behavior-of-electrons-in-3d-magnetic-material2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers led by scientists at Princeton University has found that a magnetic material at room temperature enables electrons to behave counterintuitively, acting collectively rather than as individuals. Their collective behavior mimics massless particles and anti-particles that coexist in an unexpected way and together form an exotic loop-like structure.<\/p>\n<p>The key to this behavior is topology\u2014a branch of mathematics that is already known to play a powerful role in dictating the behavior of electrons in crystals. Topological materials can contain <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/massless+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">massless particles<\/a> in the form of light, or photons. In a topological crystal, the electrons often behave like slowed-down light yet, unlike light, carry electrical charge.<\/p>\n<p>Topology has seldom been observed in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic materials<\/a>, and the finding of a magnetic topological material at room temperature is a step forward that could unlock new approaches to harnessing topological materials for future technological applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers led by scientists at Princeton University has found that a magnetic material at room temperature enables electrons to behave counterintuitively, acting collectively rather than as individuals. Their collective behavior mimics massless particles and anti-particles that coexist in an unexpected way and together form an exotic loop-like structure. The key to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96452","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=96452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}