Exotic quantum state at room temperature (IMAGE)

Princeton University

Exotic quantum state at room temperature

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Researchers at Princeton found that a material known as a topological insulator, made from the elements bismuth and bromine, exhibit specialized quantum behaviors normally seen only under extreme experimental conditions of high pressures and temperatures near absolute zero.

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Image Credit: Shafayat Hossain and M. Zahid Hasan of Princeton University

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