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Quantum Soup of Atoms: A New View on Spin Liquid ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Dirac Spin Liquid Candidate in a Rydberg Quantum Simulator"
For the first time, physicists cooked up a magnetic soup from 114 atoms—a mysterious liquid that had eluded them for decades.
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114 atoms were arranged in a Japanese woven pattern and smoothly transformed into a magnetic liquid with no order. It obeys equations similar to those describing the sea of electrons in graphene. This quantum soup could unlock the elusive spin liquid—a long-awaited material for quantum computers.

🎯 Excitations in this magnetic liquid move without resistance, as if they have no mass—just like light. That's why it's called an 'ideal quantum medium.'

Scientists
Jacob BekensteinStephen HawkingLudwig BoltzmannEdward WittenJuan MaldacenaGerard 't Hooft
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entropy Water helium
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second law of thermodynamicsBekenstein-Hawking entropyBoltzmann distributionfirst law of thermodynamicsAdS/CFT correspondenceholographic principle
Original: arXiv:2602.14323 · CC BY · bridge42worlds