{"id":53289,"date":"2025-01-13T12:17:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/?p=53289"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:09:40","slug":"2024s-biggest-breakthrough-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/2024s-biggest-breakthrough-in-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"2024&#8217;s Biggest Breakthrough in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quanta-Supersolid-vortices.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-53293 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quanta-Supersolid-vortices-1024x424.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quanta-Supersolid-vortices-1024x424.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quanta-Supersolid-vortices-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quanta-Supersolid-vortices-768x318.png 768w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quanta-Supersolid-vortices-1536x637.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quanta-Supersolid-vortices-500x207.png 500w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quanta-Supersolid-vortices-800x332.png 800w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quanta-Supersolid-vortices-1280x531.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Quanta-Supersolid-vortices.png 1884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/\">Quanta Magazine<\/a> has declared our research on the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08149-7\">Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid<\/a>&#8216; one of 2024&#8217;s Biggest Breakthrough in Physics!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moving from the largest stage to the very smallest one, physicists who manipulate atoms, molecules and crystals in the lab have also spent 2024 in the throes of discovery, having achieved astonishing levels of precision and control over their quantum quarries. A team in Innsbruck created\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/physicists-spot-quantum-tornadoes-twirling-in-a-supersolid-20241106\/\">a long-predicted exotic state of matter called a supersolid<\/a>, and even imaged the hallmark \u201cquantum tornadoes\u201d that formed when they stirred an otherwise rigid crystal of dysprosium atoms. Astrophysicists suspect that this supersolid phase might arise inside incredibly dense, fast-spinning stars called pulsars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of 2024&#8217;s Biggest Breakthroug here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/the-year-in-physics-20241217\/\">The Year in Physics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch the Quanta video, featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/team\/francesca-ferlaino\/\">Francesca<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/team\/members\/elena-poli\/\">PhD student Elena Poli<\/a>, here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UhG56kltfP4\">Youtube Explainer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the feature by Quanta Magazine here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/physicists-spot-quantum-tornadoes-twirling-in-a-supersolid-20241106\/\">Physicists spot quantum tornadoes twirling in a supersolid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the article in Nature here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08149-7\">Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the pre-print here: <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2403.18510\">arXiv:2403.18510<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quanta Magazine has declared our research on the &#8216;Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid&#8217; one of 2024&#8217;s Biggest Breakthrough in Physics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53373,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53289\/revisions\/53373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erbium.at\/FF\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}