{"id":3928129,"date":"2026-09-25T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/rare-quantum-state-reveals-particles-with-quarter-electron-charge\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:00:58","slug":"rare-quantum-state-reveals-particles-with-quarter-electron-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/rare-quantum-state-reveals-particles-with-quarter-electron-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare quantum state reveals particles with quarter-electron charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An electron&#8217;s charge is normally fixed, like a coin you can&#8217;t break into pieces. But if electrons are cooled close to absolute zero and trapped in a two-dimensional layer under a powerful magnetic field, they organize into a collective state of &#8220;quasiparticles&#8221; that seem to hold only a fraction of an electron&#8217;s charge.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-rare-quantum-state-reveals-particles.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An electron&#8217;s charge is normally fixed, like a coin you can&#8217;t break into pieces. But if electrons are cooled close to absolute zero and trapped in a two-dimensional layer under a powerful magnetic field, they organize into a collective state of &#8220;quasiparticles&#8221; that seem to hold only a fraction of an electron&#8217;s charge. <\/p>\n<p>Go 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-3928129","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\/3928129","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=3928129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}