How Two Physicists Unlocked the Secrets of Two Dimensions
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2022
- Condensed matter physics is the most active field of contemporary physics and has yielded some of the biggest breakthroughs of the past century. But as rapidly as technology has advanced, scientists have only scratched the surface. Now for the first time, Jie Shan and Fai Mak, a married couple of physicists at Cornell University, have figured out a way to create artificial atoms in the lab, opening the door to a new era in research.
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Read more about 2D materials in Charlie Wood's extended profile of Jie Shan and Kin Fai Mak for Quanta Magazine: www.quantamagazine.org/physics-duo-finds-magic-in-two-dimensions-20220816/
If you flush gasses with the appropriate temperature ,pressure with these systems on artificial will become real atoms because of free level cohesion at atomic scale
Jie Shan and Kin Fai Mak need to look deeper, these emergent properties are just a hint at an underlying structure. ;D
My question is, if they can simulate a series of oxygen atoms, can they actually produce oxygen from these structures?
Semiconductors are not alternative 2D materials, but they can be 2D materials.
@@nrgj.t669 NEVER ! the gluons are the same
This channel is so high quality and criminally under-watched. Another A+ video
A lot of budget
True, this Channel is gold
It appears to suffer from an “old media” style that is going out of fashion.
Loads and loads of b and c roll shots that don’t allow the viewer to get a good visualisation of what’s being spoken about for 80% of the video.
Unfortunate because they do a decent job of reporting.
Wtf that’s at least one SSS too less. I feel confident this video is something to be proud of.
@@JMHynzie well u should consider if the inability to "get a good visualisation of what's being spoken about" is coming from you. I personally found the visualisation sufficient
I saw a video by Veritasium where he showed the Moiré lattice pattern, he held two transparent sheets of a honeycomb-ish pattern overlapping, and I remember seeing the different shapes and structures emerging, being completely fascinated! I got way too excited about it and felt silly. I'm a 30 year old woman, and I wanted to have these sheets myself to explore these patterns, they're beautiful. I knew there was something to it, and this video makes me very, very happy! Can't wait to see more from this research and channel, I'm a new subscriber.
It is exciting, nothing silly about recognizing that!
Moiré patterns have been used in art forever, but in my physics lectures, I show moiré patterns as a visual version of beat oscillation, and also as examples of a simple kind of interference pattern. (Think: holograms.) They are an excellent example of how there are larger patterns of patterns, and larger patterns still. This application is exciting, but also a natural next step in this direction of innovation. If we extended the hologram analogy, building a "holographic" graphene (or other material) pattern for a customized purpose would be exciting. (Think: super computer on a postage stamp.)
These ideas aren't new, but bringing them into reality IS new, and very, very exciting.
@@ezfzx Yes! I saw another video here on RUclips a couple of hours ago, where this pattern was shown in a gradual simulation, showing all different patterns as it was turning. My first thought was; this looks like an oscillation/cymatics pattern! I also love the idea of showing things in a holographic way. Maybe a stupid question, but what if you layered three sheets of the pattern, would they show structures in 3D?
@@lis7742 It just gets more complicated, like adding more electron harmonics, and without precision control, there comes a chance that some of the sought after patterns would suffer from some slight destructive interference. Maybe an A.I. could manage it.
@@ezfzx I'm thinking the same, I can't wait to see how much an AI will immensely augment advancements in science (and many other areas). It's giving me hope for the future.
Almost like they're making their own "fields" and then creating particles by putting different levels of energy into those "fields." Amazing.
Sounds hella scary when you say it like that
yes but the strenght of the chemical bonding of one of those artificial atoms its significantly weaker than that of an natural atom
Those energy levels are DIFFERENT than the natural ones
Pretty much making their own sandbox.. hmmm
@@kukulroukul4698 Also the frequency of electron orbit are slower to they can applied by voltage.
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I love the realism of his attitude. He acknowledged that this work may not have much real world scaling, but the concepts themselves are what is important.
Whoa. I love this type of minimalist approach to problems in general. It's so elegant here. Very inspiring!
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@@juastw2285 I choose dialog option 2.
So many developments like this seem hypey. But this one, dropping to 2D is such a beautiful simplification, lends itself to sane-time computer simulation. The moiré bit, again, beautiful. Reminds me a lot of X-ray crystallography, maybe similar potential for discovering how stuff works.
Couldn't have put it better
Never thought I would see Moire patterns being mentioned here. Absolutely amazing video!
A flat earther discovered this through ionization in a vacuum, which changes the states of Nobel gases. Reducing electrons all the way up to Helium.
Boom!
Once you understand the flat earth system, you know it all. The problem is that your Freemason controlled science doesn't want the average person to know it, so they present all sorts of stupid flat earth models to fool the masses.
Great video, thank you. Well scripted and visualized. You did a great job in explaining this concept clearly and concisely. Many video production creators don't get it right by doing what you did. Keeping it simple.
May I just say I am delighted how quickly this video followed the last!! I can’t get enough of this channel!!
This was fascinating - great work!
Props to the teams including postdoc and phd students in the research, because we know they are the unsung contributing heroes
My physics are 30 years old, but/and thanks for keeping me updated. What a great channel, I agree with the man who said it was underwatched. And what wonderful people these 2 are.
Wow. This feels like game changing research. New technology here we come. Material sciences are fascinating.
I'd love to see a more in-depth video about the mechanics of how the stacked sheets create virtual atoms!
What are the limitations? Are there any conceivable functional/commercial uses (beyond research).
What an exciting development in physics research! I'm surprised this is the first I'm hearing of this technique/technology.
Funny enough, this is actually my field of research. I'm a PhD student in condensed matter experiment. The great part about these 2D materials is that we really don't know what their full capabilities are. We haven't yet realized all practical materials in 2D with proper study, so nobody knows what's still out there. Commercial uses range from solar panels that are factors more efficient than current panels, to faster computers, larger quantum computers, and many more. Realistically, this is one of the most fruitful fields of physics that still has a lot to be picked.
@@theflufffactor6060 Can the virtual atoms move around in their 2D matrix? Can they be combined into molecules?
@@GregConquest i think that as long as the moire pattern doesn't move, the Artificials Atoms (AA) won't move, AA are localized here. but creating an AA with an STM tip over a 2D materials (graphene), and moving the STM tip should give you mobile AA.
if 2 AA are close enough, their state shall interact giving you Artificial Molecule.
in the futur if we can control lot's of AA, we can simulate complex molecules and study their behaviour without doing very taxing computation, that's what we call quantu simulation i think (not sure)
@@GregConquest There is something called a semiconductor nanocrystal which people call an artificial atom, which can be assembled into artificial molecules. At least in my subsubfield, we don't care too much about moving them around in space. We focus on the electromagnetic properties of these low dimensional systems, not necessarily where they are.
In theory, you can control where these virtual atoms "are" by carefully configuring the real material stacks. In practice, these material systems are hard to make in the first place. Typically, if your project is on material AB, you would be over the moon if you can synthesize it and measure it. We are very much in the baby stages of this field. The Nobel Prize for the study of graphene was in 2010, just to put things in perspective.
Wait wait, I’m more thinking about combining those atoms in molecules and creating realistic matter? As in a form of very crude replicators from Star Trek is that possible? Would be awesome to be able to create actual matter from virtual Atoms! Imagine the possibilities if this becomes a reality!
This seems genuinely revolutionary
You can tell by how big they are smiling.
NOPE, its genuinely a bunch of nonsense, that's why they are smiling. No one has even seen a single Atom with any clarity, everything we think we know about atoms is pure speculation, No one has ever detected an Electron, a Proton or a Neutron, they are ASSSUMED to exist because or MODEL of the Atom says they ought to exist. Well, some don't agree with the current Model. Science is not about consensus.
So, they haven't created an atom from Electrons at all, they have not ever actually studied an electron, because they cant capture one or even if they did, nothing they could do could examine such an object.
Creating a sheet of graphene or similar only a couple of atoms thick, it would necessarily be practically invisible to an optical system. Remember an electron scanning microscope can only see a fuzzy blob that they think is an individual atom, so a material made from only two stacked is going to be too flimsy to hold together. Look at gold foil, it gets so thin that it cant be handled mechanically. it wafts away on the air currents if if gets too thin. And even then it no where near a few atoms thick.
So they are claiming to be able to make any element by just adding electrons one by one...
but Hydrogen has one electron and one Proton, but he said he added a single electron to make Helium, but Helium needs 2 Protons, so where did they second Proton come from?
There is no way to just "add" a single electron by "dialling up the voltage".
This is just like the quantum fake science they all rave about. All BS.
@@everythingisalllies2141 Let's assume everything you say is true. The device you are using to type all of this is based on storing billions of on/off states in matter using electrons. So even if we have never seen an atom or electron that doesn't really matter in any practical sense. We can build things in the real world with our models and they work in a consistent manner.
@@lucidvizion No, you ASSUME that the IC in my computer is working by storing little chinks of matter you called Electrons, because that is part of your imaginery MODEL of how electricity works. But SOMETHING is happening, but to claim its electrons is just your assumption. Truth is there is no way for you to prove that these electrons actually exist, you have never isolated one and presented it for inspection.
Artificial atoms based on Josephson junctions have been around for more than a decade now lol
This channel deserves more credit, hands down has the best science in a nutshell consumer content on RUclips.
what a genius idea. you can tell theyre passionate about their field too by the smiles on their faces when they talk about it
Beautifully animated, great job Quanta
astonishing! who wouldve guessed moire patterns could unlock this new world! bravo to Jie Shan, Fai Mak and their students
fascinating stuff! love this channel! hear about all the things that I would never know about otherwise, and with such crisp animations. Thanks team and all!
Great audio in this video, guys. Keep the sound guys you've got..they're rare to find on RUclips! So big shout.
Wow…breath-taking research… How exciting to learn of it. I feel very privileged to have you share this information!
Thank you. Having recently read an article that corresponds to the subjectd of this video, I find this presentation is a lot more approachable and, really, very much more exciting than was the article.
Always something new and high quality, isn't it? Amazing!
Mind blowing, elegant, creativity.
Absolutely amazing!
As another person commented..."WHOA!"
This sounds every bit as much a potential for experimental discoveries as the introduction of the microscope, electron microscope, telescope, oscilloscope, etc.
It may offer even more fundamental utility in linking geometry (2D planes, Moire patterns, alignments between planes, etc.) to the physics of materials
I don't think that has previously even been considered as an avenue for exploration
It has been considered, but, until recently, just hypothetical, waiting for the technology to catch up ... like so much innovation. When physicists get frustrated waiting for the future to arrive, they sometimes go write "hard" science fiction, a largely untapped resource for scientific inspiration. :)
@@ezfzx Did I hear 'Mars Trilogy' or 'Ender's Game' ?
@@gregparrott Perhaps! Some of the best "hard science" fiction, isn't always great fiction, since the authors are so excited by the science. But the science fans who understand it will eat it up. Some of the best ideas we've had for little under-grad research projects were inspired by works no one (outside of the science community) had ever heard of.
@@gregparrott Ender's Game is just god-tier
Imagine the capacity of a self-modifying microchip, real programmable electronics, not fake one like in FPGAs.
No one saw that potential, forget about superconductors. That would boost computers to another scale of power and give another spin to the wheel of Moore's law. (it is getting a bit slower , Moore's law is not dead and never will die, but the wheel can get slower and slower until a paradigm shift like this)
That if made into a working product would be a trillion dollar industry.
We could even call it metaelectronics, imagine the potential !
This is a phenomenal video
Amazing. Great video, thanks.
in one dimension i have some general understanding of their descriptions ...in the other dimension, I have no idea what they are talking about...
So glad I found your channel 😊❤️
Excellent video.
This channel covers such premiere topics.. with beautiful animation and natural narration.. it's a future 10M+ channel.
Wow this is really exotic. Thanks for this amazing video. So exciting.
Amazing work
Im so glad the guy looks so happy talking about what he did
Stuff like this blows my mind. Extremely interesting.
as a phd working on something similar, I really enjoyed watching this really well done video with great researchers. thanks Quanta for sharing and creating high quality content
A wonderfully inspirational video, especially for young aspiring physicists.
Simply amazing!
A while ago I read an article also about a similar moire experiments and where by accident was discovered that under a particular angle at room temperature electrons move without loss through the material. In the topology of materials and their setup there is still quite some exploration of new physics possible
could you plz link it in here?
You just pointed out a real world application. High temp superconducting.
These are good videos
Interesting video. Your 3d graphics department is making excellent work
another damn good video. I always waited for new videos from "Quanta Magazine"
Can someone explain something to me (not a trained scientist): how many of these "virtual atoms" can they manipulate at once? Are they able to scale the quantity up enough to make, for instance, clouds of virtual hydrogen, helium, etc?
Yeah and does this artificial atom go away when no more voltage is applied.
@@errgo2713 I don't think they are stable without the specific pressure, temperature, and energy conditions, as the quasiparticles are formed from those. I think you can see it as an electron liquid, where depending on those conditions it exhibits different, more bizarre quantum states of matter that are emergent from the interaction of many particles.
Also as I understand it, atoms are kinda defined by their number of protons, 1 for H, 2 for He, 3 for Li, etc. So why does changing the metric associated with electrons change the atom, and not just change it to a type of ion instead?
Also, as I understand it, an atom usually has the same amount of protons as neutrons, so are these created atoms special isotopes of the usual atoms?
this is what I wanted to ask
@@asdli6402 Because they aren't really atoms. It's a really common thing in condensed physics to do "simulations" of the real thing by using an absolutely different physical object, that on some level behaves similar to the thing you are studying. In this case, having read the article, it's not electrons that are orbiting "artificial atoms", it's "excitons" - a "particle" consisting of an electron+hole pair in different layers of the material. It is not really a particle in a physical sense, but it *behaves* like one, and if you are willing to accept it as a particle, it follows the regular Schrodinger's equation (except in 2D).
This isn't the first time condensed physics has done this - there are also so called "phonons", for example, that are quantum particles of sound waves - basically a particle representation of deformation waves travelling through a material, and they also behave like regular quantum particles if you look at them right.
What that Moiré lattice does is create potential wells for those "excitons", similar to how nucleus creates a potential well for an electron in the atom. This way, these excitons follow the Schrodinger's equation really similar to that of a real atom, so the effects you find with them can be applied to real atoms too. That's why they're called "virtual atoms" - they're not atoms in any real sense, there's no nucleus and there are excitons instead of electrons, but it's similar enough to be interesting. And yes, you can create lots of them - they're automatically "placed" at the nodes of the Moiré lattice, so as long as your sheet of material is big enough, you can get as many of them as you want.
Brilliant innovation. So much new work to be done
I like this scientifically productive marriage!
All this depth from an in-flight magazine, I’m impressed.
Quanta Magazine has such fascinating content, bleeding-edge content. I love it!
Another great video
Very exciting stuff. The development of a room temp superconductor would be game changing :O
Incredible content ❤❤
i missed the secrets and physics part, but i got all of the hype so thanks for that
This is amazing
This is incredible
This is awesome 👏
This is Awesome. In the traditional sense of the word.
Modern alchemy! Love it!
so exciting !
Holy mother of god… virtual-atoms… I’ve seen it all now.
Please add captions! Automated captions are good but I feel like with your way of words, seeing the captions makes it even better imo! Very great video too!
Can someone help me clear up my confusion?:
As I understand it, atoms are kinda defined by their number of protons, 1 for H, 2 for He, 3 for Li, etc. So why does changing the metric associated with electrons change the atom, and not just change it to a type of ion instead?
Also, as I understand it, an atom usually has the same amount of protons as neutrons, so are these created atoms special isotopes of the usual atoms?
What they have is a region in the 2D structure that behaves like an individual atom, but it's actually way bigger, so it's easier to measure. Atoms are defined by the number of protons, but their real behaviour and most characteristics are defined by how the electron cloud is distributed. That's why atoms in the same column of the periodic table have similar properties. When they change the voltage it changes how the simulated atom behaves.
@@tiagodasilva1124 appreciate the clear explanation!
@@ToriKo_ Yeah, I don't think there are actually any protons or neutrons in there. When they say "atom", it sounds like they've reproduced an electron cloud environment similar to what you'd find around an actual atom. Which is why it's "larger", because an actual atomic nucleus would pull those electrons in a LOT tighter.
According to Wikipedia. The amount of electrons in atom mirror the number of protons.
@@JasonB808 That is typically true. But these structures they are making are, near as I can tell, not complete atoms. They are clouds of electrons resonating the way they would if they were attached to an atom. It's very clever, but also a very VERY loose application of the phrase "artificial atom", which is no doubt causing the confusion.
That’s like Alchemy!!! Bravo
She was my physics 1 professor at Case Western! Good to see she's doing big things
OMG! Mind-blown!
Wow, wow, wow thats amazing. How useful that will be to understand chemistry even more
Quanta , please don't let us alone with this long period of waiting :(
Thnak you Qunata
Absolutely wicked. Thank you for sharing.
How does this not get more views, the greater public needs this information
Controlling artificial electron shells with voltage, using moire patterns of superimposed lattices?! That's insanely cool
A new everything I like that !
Lets Go !When will we Realize
This
Wow! Amazing
6:46 Just wondering whether the different central potential from a Coulomb one would play spoilsport in modeling physical systems. But it's a fantastic idea even otherwise, with possible long-term ramifications. Godspeed.
This video is really smart.
So good.
That is amazing research
I’ve been hoping for something like this. Hope it actually pans out.
I'm wondeirng if this is what it was like for the square having the revelations about Flatland's existence
Pete's sakes!!!!!! This is mind-blowing. This is astonishing!
That's amazing
Keep it up scientist, the world needed you.
Have any undergraduate in Cornell worked on this project?
Cornell! Andy would be proud
Incredible.
This channel is super dope
Commenting for the algorithm - Amazing content always.
groundbreaking!
Quanta Magazine graces youtube again with beautiful science reporting.
An interesting study, indeed. If they can control atoms more effectively, it could make huge improvements perhaps one day. My other point is that by adding electrons you are creating ions of hydrogen. To create heavier elements you need protons and neutrons. Still, it's a good method, IMO.
Impressive!
I envy this couple ;) Being scientifically productive like that is the very fun of life.
Yeeees i love moire patterns, thats dope
Amazing
This video really rings a bell, having just begun reading “The Three Body Problem”.
This is the only time when science truly take a step forward : when people do it with Love
Makes me want to create two hexagon lattice pattern layers in an image editor file, then make them transparent and slide them around to marvel at the shapes.
Very interesting. Although I dislike the use of the term "artificial Helium" (chemical elements are defined by the number of protons in the nucleus), being able to create a simulacra of the outer electron shells using this technology would indeed recreate the array of chemical reactions that are possible. It would be very interesting to see this technology applied to replace catalysts in chemical reactions as the effect only needs to be temporary and does not remain in the product of the reactions.
Fascinating. Do they see orbitals like real atoms ?
I can’t wait until they start using this tech to start simulating instead of just single elements, compounds and complex molecules. We could actually start seeing how bonds form between different atoms and see how Adams move through space or stuff like that since I’m not too good at chemistry