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The weird and wonderful world of quasiparticles

Electrons in materials can behave in strikingly different ways than their free counterparts. Especially at cold temperatures, interactions between electrons and atoms in a material make the whole...

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The twelve-fold way (Science Advent 2)

(Every day until December 25, I’m posting a science-related image and description.) Day 2 A 12-fold quasicrystal: a two-dimensional arrangement of atoms that can never fully repeat itself. The...

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