Mysterious 'sudden death' of quantum vortices in a superconductor stumps scientists
When you buy through links on our internet site , we may earn an affiliate military commission . Here ’s how it works . Physicists have observed the mysterious " sudden death " of quantum fluctuations inside a bizarre superconducting material . The discovery , made in an corpuscle - thin layer of the semimetallic chemical compound tungsten ditelluride , requires a completely new theory to explicate it . An artist’s illustration of a quantum whirlpool....