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JoeMerchant [soylentnews.org] writes:

An international team of researchers has created what’s called a “strange metal [futurism.com]” — 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 absolute zero (or -273.15C) — the team’s strange metal undergoes a transition from a quantum phase, in which it forms a magnetic order, to another phase in which it doesn’t.

While conducting experiments on ultrapure films made from the metal, the team noticed quantum entanglement [symmetrymagazine.org] among billions of billions of electrons in it. But it's still no workaround for the light speed limit [forbes.com], not even if you use octinons [forbes.com].

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