{"id":98505,"date":"2019-11-14T00:31:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/unique-properties-of-quantum-material-explained-for-first-time"},"modified":"2019-11-14T00:31:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:31:50","slug":"unique-properties-of-quantum-material-explained-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/unique-properties-of-quantum-material-explained-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Unique properties of quantum material explained for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unique-properties-of-quantum-material-explained-for-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The characteristics of a new, iron-containing type of material that is thought to have future applications in nanotechnology and spintronics have been determined at Purdue University.<\/p>\n<p>The native material, a topological <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/insulator\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">insulator<\/a>, is an unusual type of three-dimensional (3D) system that has the interesting property of not significantly changing its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/crystal+structure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">crystal structure<\/a> when it changes electronic phases\u2014unlike water, for example, which goes from ice to liquid to steam. More important, the material has an electrically conductive surface but a non-conducting (insulating) core.<\/p>\n<p>However, once iron is introduced into the native material, during a process called doping, certain structural rearrangements and magnetic properties appear which have been found with high-performance computational methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The characteristics of a new, iron-containing type of material that is thought to have future applications in nanotechnology and spintronics have been determined at Purdue University. The native material, a topological insulator, is an unusual type of three-dimensional (3D) system that has the interesting property of not significantly changing its crystal structure when it changes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98505","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=98505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}