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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @12:56PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 30 2020, @12:56PM (#951150)

    If you read carefully it could say they created this metal then calculated the behavior at absolute zero.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday January 30 2020, @02:18PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday January 30 2020, @02:18PM (#951171) Homepage
    Which would be non-science.

    Sod zero-temperature, I wanna know how this metal behaves when zero-sized?
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