About Chiral Bose-Liquid State:
- Usually matter exists in solid, liquid or gas forms.
- At temperatures approaching absolute zero, or the world within the atom, things are very different.
- In these “quantum” states, matter behaves in ways quite different from the solid, liquid, and gaseous states.
- Under frustrated quantum systems, where infinite possibilities result from the interaction of particles.
How it was formed?
- Researchers used a bi-layer semiconducting device.
- The top layer is electron-rich, and these electrons can move freely.
- The bottom layer is filled with “holes,” or places that a roving electron can occupy.
- Then the two layers are brought extremely close together. The machine is then triggered to create a local imbalance resulting in electrons not having enough holes to fill and this kicks off the novel state called the chiral Bose-liquid state.
- In this state, electrons can be frozen into predictable patterns, making them resilient to changes in spin (a defining characteristic of subatomic particles) and even have electrons synchronise their movements.
- It is very difficult to create such states of matter but going ahead may be used to fashion novel digital encryption systems.
What is Chiral?
- The term chiral is from the Greek word for ‘hand’ which refers to anything which cannot be superimposed on its own mirror image.
