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posted by martyb on Thursday January 30 2020, @07:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the What-a-tangled-web... dept.

Scientists Create "Strange Metal" Packed With Entangled Electrons:

An international team of researchers has created what's called a strange metal — and they say it could help harness the potential of the quantum world in a practical way.

Specifically, the metal provides evidence for the quantum entanglement nature of quantum criticality.

[...] The researchers used the elements ytterbium, rhodium, and silicon to create a type of metal in which the electrons act as a unit rather than independently like they would in a regular metal, such as copper or gold.

When at the lowest temperature theoretically possible — absolute zero, or -273.15 degrees Celsius (-459.67 degrees Fahrenheit) — the team's strange metal undergoes a transition from a quantum phase, in which it forms a magnetic order, to another phase in which is doesn't.

While conducting experiments on ultrapure films made from the metal, the team noticed quantum entanglement among billions of billions of electrons in it.

But it's still no workaround for the light speed limit, not even if you use octinons.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @10:43AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @10:43AM (#951128)

    Collagen was one of the first recognized phenomenon demonstrating that semiconductor doping leads to electron delocalization. It was discovered by Albert Szent-Gyorgi a few years after his Nobel prize for identifying hexuronic acid (vitamin c) as the antiscorbutic agent in citrus fruits.
    https://science.sciencemag.org/content/93/2426/609 [sciencemag.org]

    Ascorbate is one source of electrons to required keep these proteins in the delocalized/functional state. This has been theorized to be the mechanism via which acupuncture can have an effect (assuming it does).

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7556511 [nih.gov]

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @11:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @11:03AM (#951133)

    Fuck me harder, Asscorbate Daddy.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @11:29AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @11:29AM (#951137)

    Collagen... Ascorbate... Accupuncture...

    You're talking GP's Goop language now...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @11:37AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @11:37AM (#951142)

      Stick with CNN so you don't come across any ideas that make you uncomfortable.

  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday February 07 2020, @02:00AM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 07 2020, @02:00AM (#954985) Homepage Journal

    I thought vitamin C was ascorbic acid. Is hexuronic acid another name for it?