Chiral Bose liquid State

June 24, 2023

A recent research by physicists shows that the chiral bose-liquid state may be an entirely new state of matter.
Usually matter exists as a solid, liquid or gas.
But, quantum states of matter, such as plasma, time crystals, and Bose-Einstein condensate also exist at the atomic scale, and at extremely low temperatures approaching absolute zero.
Chiral Bose-liquid state – It is a new phase discovered by physicists in a frustrated quantum system, where infinite possibilities result from the interaction of particles.
The research team developed a bilayer semiconductor device or a frustration.
- The top layer of the device was made electron-rich, and had free movement of electrons.
- The bottom layer only had holes, which are slots an electron can occupy.
- The two layers were brought extremely close together.
- The machine is then triggered to create a local imbalance resulting in electrons not having enough holes to fill (similiar to the game of musical chairs).
- This kicks off the novel state called the chiral bose-liquid state.
This new state can be used to understand the quantum world better as in this state the electrons can be frozen into predictable patterns, can be made resilient to changes in spin and can even synchronise their movements.