Chiral Bose-Liquid State

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.