All articles tagged with #bosons
Originally Published 2 months ago — by Phys.org
Photons exhibit collective behavior only after reaching a certain number, favoring the more populated state, which could be harnessed to develop more powerful lasers, according to a study published in Physical Review Letters.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Interesting Engineering
Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a breakthrough material made of bosons, a less explored realm of particle physics. By overlapping lattices of tungsten diselenide and tungsten disulfide in a twisted configuration, they created a highly ordered crystal of bosonic particles called excitons, resulting in a new state of matter termed a "bosonic correlated insulator."
Originally Published 2 years ago — by indy100
Scientists have created a new state of matter called bosonic correlated insulator, which is made up of subatomic particles. The material is a lattice-shaped pattern formed from a layer of two different types of subatomic particles: bosons and fermions. The new material doesn't have any practical uses yet, but it helps scientists understand how the universe is put together. The discovery could lead to finding more materials like this in the future.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Livescience.com
Physicists have discovered a new state of matter called a "bosonic correlated insulator," which takes the form of a highly ordered crystal of subatomic particles. The discovery could lead to the creation of many new types of exotic materials made from condensed matter. The researchers used a lattice of tungsten disulfide and tungsten diselenide to create the new state of matter by pushing excitons together until they were so densely packed that they could no longer move. This is the first time this new state of matter has been created in a "real" matter system, providing new insight into the behavior of bosons.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Interesting Engineering
Physicists have created an exotic material by crystalizing fermions into bosons using an innovative technique. This results in the formation of an exciton, where a negatively charged electron becomes bound to a positively charged fermion, forming a bosonic particle with a full integer spin.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Phys.org
Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a new state of matter, a bosonic correlated insulator, by creating a highly ordered crystal of bosonic particles called excitons in a moiré pattern of lattices of tungsten diselenide and tungsten disulfide. This is the first time such a material has been created in a "real" matter system. The researchers' moiré platform and pump-probe spectroscopy could become an important means for creating and investigating bosonic materials, opening more windows into the world of condensed matter with new bosonic materials.