Anything-goes 'anyons' may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments

In the past year, two separate experiments in two different materials captured the same confounding scenario: the coexistence ...
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MIT finds superconductivity and magnetism can co-exist in one material

Superconductivity and magnetism have long been treated as rivals in condensed matter physics, one thriving on perfect ...

Superconductivity and magnetism can co-exist in some materials, MIT study finds

For decades, physicists taught that superconductivity and magnetism could not share the same space. One state should destroy ...
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“This Will Be a New Chapter in Quantum Physics”: Odd Quasiparticles May Explain a Pair of Quantum Experiments That Baffled Scientists

Scientists may have finally unlocked the unusual role quasiparticles known as "anyons" play in a pair of quantum experiments ...
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Exotic Anyons May Unlock a New Form of Superconductivity

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, theoretical physicists at MIT explained how ...
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Think you understand evaporation? Think again, says MIT

We all know that water evaporates when the temperature climbs, but researchers have just shown that there's another factor at play. The breakthrough could solve long-standing atmospheric mysteries and ...