{"id":3926500,"date":"2026-06-15T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/ultrafast-laser-pulses-reveal-a-materials-hidden-state-of-matter\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T13:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:00:22","slug":"ultrafast-laser-pulses-reveal-a-materials-hidden-state-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/ultrafast-laser-pulses-reveal-a-materials-hidden-state-of-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultrafast laser pulses reveal a material&#8217;s hidden state of matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>What would it take to instantly transform a material from an electrical insulator into a conductive state without ever touching it? Using ultrafast laser pulses and powerful X-rays, scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)\u2014a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE&#8217;s Brookhaven National Laboratory\u2014developed a methodology to generate &#8220;hidden&#8221; phases and understand why they work.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-ultrafast-laser-pulses-reveal-material.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would it take to instantly transform a material from an electrical insulator into a conductive state without ever touching it? Using ultrafast laser pulses and powerful X-rays, scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)\u2014a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE&#8217;s Brookhaven National Laboratory\u2014developed a methodology to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}