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


MIT theoretical physicists may have an explanation for the surprising observation that superconductivity and magnetism can co-exist in some materials. They propose that under certain conditions, a magnetic material’s electrons could splinter into quasiparticles known as “anyons,” some of which could flow together without friction — an entirely new form of superconductivity.

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