{"id":99565,"date":"2019-12-10T19:04:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T03:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/new-laser-technique-images-quantum-world-in-a-trillionth-of-a-second"},"modified":"2019-12-10T19:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T03:04:52","slug":"new-laser-technique-images-quantum-world-in-a-trillionth-of-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/new-laser-technique-images-quantum-world-in-a-trillionth-of-a-second","title":{"rendered":"New laser technique images quantum world in a trillionth of a second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-laser-technique-images-quantum-world-in-a-trillionth-of-a-second.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers have been able to record, frame-by-frame, how an electron interacts with certain atomic vibrations in a solid. The technique captures a process that commonly causes electrical resistance in materials while, in others, can cause the exact opposite\u2014the absence of resistance, or superconductivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way electrons interact with each other and their microscopic environment determines the properties of all solids,\u201d said MengXing Na, a University of British Columbia (UBC) Ph.D. student and co-lead author of the study, published last week in <i>Science<\/i>. \u201cOnce we identify the dominant microscopic interactions that define a material\u2019s properties, we can find ways to \u2018turn up\u2019 or \u2018down\u2019 the interaction to elicit useful electronic properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Controlling these interactions is important for the technological exploitation of quantum materials, including superconductors, which are used in MRI machines, high-speed magnetic levitation trains, and could one day revolutionize how energy is transported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers have been able to record, frame-by-frame, how an electron interacts with certain atomic vibrations in a solid. The technique captures a process that commonly causes electrical resistance in materials while, in others, can cause the exact opposite\u2014the absence of resistance, or superconductivity. \u201cThe way electrons interact with each other and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99565","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=99565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}