The quantum cocktail

• Autores: Mark Buchanan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2536, 2006, págs. 40-43
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Buchanan examines the theory of quantum criticality and explores how it may help explain the mysteries that live within high-temperature superconductors; and thus, would help describe the fundamentals of how the universe works. The behavior of high-temperature superconductors and all other exotic materials may represent different manifestations of such hidden order, and physicists hope that a grand theory of the quantum critical point may help bring its character into focus. Quantum criticality may reveal itself in such materials, but it originates in in the fundamental nature of quantum indeterminacy and so is likely to arise in many other settings.