{"id":749034,"date":"2023-02-24T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=749034"},"modified":"2023-02-24T10:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:35:02","slug":"when-material-goes-quantum-electrons-slow-down-and-form-a-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=749034","title":{"rendered":"When material goes quantum, electrons slow down and form a crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The shifting, scintillating pattern you can see when you stack two slightly misaligned window screens is called moir\u00e9. A similar interference effect occurs when scientists stack two-dimensional crystals with mismatched atomic spacings. Moir\u00e9 superlattices display exotic physical properties that are absent in the layers that make up the patterns. These properties are rooted in the quantum nature of electrons.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-02-material-quantum-electrons-crystal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">When material goes quantum, electrons slow down and form a crystal<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shifting, scintillating pattern you can see when you stack two slightly misaligned window screens is called moir\u00e9. A similar interference effect occurs when scientists stack two-dimensional crystals with mismatched&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-749034","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\/749034","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=749034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749034\/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=749034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}