For the first time, physicists confirmed that the state of matter called "excitonium" does exist

Many people know that the material state is probably liquid, solid, gaseous, and plasma, but in fact scientists have been working hard for many years, the state of matter has gone far beyond this. The U.S. research team recently announced an exciting discovery - They confirmed that a state of matter called excitonium does exist.

ScienceAlert reports that excitonium is made of bosons, which make excitonium a superfluid, superconductor, or even an insulated transistor.

The study was co-authored by Peter Abbamonte, a professor of physics, and his colleagues at the University of Illinois, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Amsterdam, who recently published a paper in Science Journals that described exactly how they were detected excitonium evidence of existence.

(Credit: Peter Abbamonte)

Abbamonte believes the result is "cosmic." Since the creation of the term excitonium by Harvard theoretical physicist Bert Halperin in 1960, physicists have been trying to prove its existence, and theorists have for it Conductive capabilities are debated. "

Although some researchers tried to prove the existence of "excitonium" experimentally from the beginning of 1970, Abbamonte pointed out that those results are equally able to be interpreted through traditional structural phase-change behavior and therefore can not be said to have exact evidence.

It is now confirmed that "excitonium" does exist and can be specifically observed experimentally. In the future, it will be able to further explore its special properties and to apply it. Considering that people's understanding of quantum mechanics stems from the analysis of quantum phenomena , This study may also help to further solve the current quantum problems.

At present, these applications are only speculative, and it is impossible to know exactly how they will be applied until the relevant experimental tests are conducted, but what the researchers really did realize is that "excitonium" is more potential than previously known.