Yang Xiao

Quantum batteries lose energy due to entropy — the tendency toward disorder. Just as parallel wires pick up interference, the battery's contacts with the environment create leakage channels. The solution: braid the giant atoms, which act as both charger and storage, into a braid.

Hot tea in a freezer doesn't freeze all at once. First, tiny ice needles dart around — forming and melting until the temperature drops enough for the ice to set solid. The early universe behaved similarly as it cooled and changed its internal structure.