{"id":658711,"date":"2020-06-22T13:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658711"},"modified":"2020-06-22T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T17:03:42","slug":"a-new-symmetry-broken-parent-state-discovered-in-twisted-bilayer-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658711","title":{"rendered":"A new symmetry-broken parent state discovered in twisted bilayer graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018 it was discovered that two layers of graphene twisted one with respect to the other by a &#8220;magic&#8221; angle show a variety of interesting quantum phases, including superconductivity, magnetism and insulating behaviors. Now, a team of researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science led by Prof. Shahal Ilani of the Condensed Matter Physics Department, in collaboration with Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero&#8217;s group at MIT, have discovered that these quantum phases descend from a previously unknown high-energy &#8220;parent state&#8221; with an unusual breaking of symmetry.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-06-symmetry-broken-parent-state-bilayer-graphene.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">A new symmetry-broken parent state discovered in twisted bilayer graphene<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018 it was discovered that two layers of graphene twisted one with respect to the other by a &#8220;magic&#8221; angle show a variety of interesting quantum phases, including superconductivity,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}