{"id":96907,"date":"2019-10-02T00:41:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T07:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/quantum-material-goes-where-none-have-gone-before"},"modified":"2019-10-02T00:41:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T07:41:05","slug":"quantum-material-goes-where-none-have-gone-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/quantum-material-goes-where-none-have-gone-before","title":{"rendered":"Quantum material goes where none have gone before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-material-goes-where-none-have-gone-before2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rice University physicist Qimiao Si began mapping quantum criticality more than a decade ago, and he\u2019s finally found a traveler that can traverse the final frontier.<\/p>\n<p>The traveler is an alloy of cerium palladium and aluminum, and its journey is described in a study published online this week in <i>Nature Physics<\/i> by Si, a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theoretical+physicist\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theoretical physicist<\/a> and director of the Rice Center for Quantum Materials (RCQM), and colleagues in China, Germany and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Si\u2019s map is a graph called a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/phase+diagram\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">phase diagram<\/a>, a tool that condensed-matter physicists often use to interpret what happens when a material changes phase, as when a solid block of ice melts into liquid water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice University physicist Qimiao Si began mapping quantum criticality more than a decade ago, and he\u2019s finally found a traveler that can traverse the final frontier. The traveler is an alloy of cerium palladium and aluminum, and its journey is described in a study published online this week in Nature Physics by Si, a theoretical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96907","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=96907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}