{"id":97196,"date":"2019-10-08T10:22:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/complex-energies-quantum-symmetries"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:22:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:22:50","slug":"complex-energies-quantum-symmetries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/complex-energies-quantum-symmetries","title":{"rendered":"Complex energies, quantum symmetries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/complex-energies-quantum-symmetries3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a certain sense, physics is the study of the universe\u2019s symmetries. Physicists strive to understand how systems and symmetries change under various transformations.<\/p>\n<p>New research from Washington University in St. Louis realizes one of the first parity-time (PT) symmetric <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum systems<\/a>, allowing scientists to observe how that kind of symmetry\u2014and the act of breaking of it\u2014leads to previously unexplored phenomena. The work from the laboratory of Kater Murch, associate professor of physics in Arts &amp; <i>Science<\/i>s, is published Oct. 7 in the journal Nature Physics.<\/p>\n<p>Other experiments have demonstrated PT symmetry in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/classical+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">classical systems<\/a> such as coupled pendulums or optical devices, but this new work in Murch\u2019s lab, along with experiments in China by Yang Wu et al., reported in <i>Science<\/i> this May, provides the first experimental realization of a PT-symmetric quantum system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a certain sense, physics is the study of the universe\u2019s symmetries. Physicists strive to understand how systems and symmetries change under various transformations. New research from Washington University in St. Louis realizes one of the first parity-time (PT) symmetric quantum systems, allowing scientists to observe how that kind of symmetry\u2014and the act of breaking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97196","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=97196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}