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Quantum Physicists Tune Material’s Property Using Energy of ‘Empty’ Space
Research from Flatiron Institute member Nicolas Regnault and others demonstrates a setup that can alter a material’s properties with vacuum field fluctuations.
In a new paper in Nature, a team of quantum physicists, including Flatiron Institute research scientist Nicolas Regnault, demonstrates a remarkable setup that can alter a material’s properties using vacuum field fluctuations. “Vacuum fields provide a new route toward designing the interaction between electrons.” Because the work concerns electron gases confined to two dimensions, the mechanism could aid in creating quasi-particles called anyons that have only been seen in 2D systems. Anyons, Regnault says, “have no counterpart in the realm of elementary particles,” making them particularly interesting to study for potential applications in quantum computing.
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