{"id":97579,"date":"2019-10-18T09:43:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-discover-fractal-patterns-in-a-quantum-material"},"modified":"2019-10-18T09:43:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T16:43:18","slug":"for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-discover-fractal-patterns-in-a-quantum-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-discover-fractal-patterns-in-a-quantum-material","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in a Quantum Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-ever-scientists-discover-fractal-patterns-in-a-quantum-material2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From tiny snowflakes to the jagged fork of a lightning bolt, it\u2019s not hard to find examples of fractals in the natural world. So it might come as a surprise that, until now, there have remained some places these endlessly repeating geometrical patterns have never been seen.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists from MIT have now provided the first known example of a fractal arrangement in a quantum material.<\/p>\n<p>The patterns were seen in an unexpected distribution of magnetic units called \u2018domains\u2019, which develop in a compound called neodymium nickel oxide \u2014 a rare earth metal with extraordinary properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From tiny snowflakes to the jagged fork of a lightning bolt, it\u2019s not hard to find examples of fractals in the natural world. So it might come as a surprise that, until now, there have remained some places these endlessly repeating geometrical patterns have never been seen. Physicists from MIT have now provided the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97579","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}