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Rice University

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Rice physicists (from left) Ruwan Senaratne, Randy Hulet, Aashish Kafle and Danyel Cavazos built a quantum simulator to measure spin-charge separation, an effect where spin and charge, traits of indivisible particles called electrons, move through 1D wires at different speeds.

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