Experiments with quantum systems sometimes yield surprising results. This is exactly what happened when John Thomas, a researcher at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina found out when he and his post doc, Du, and his students Luo and Clancy, attempted to study a trapped cloud of Fermi atoms all initially in the same quantum superposition of spin-up and spin-down states. They expected all of the atoms to move uniformly back and forth in the trap. Instead, the atoms moved in a way that not p
Published On:	10/27/2008
Submitted On:	10/27/2008 9:32:31 PM by Saul Albom
Categories:	Physics

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Current theories can't explain observed spin segregation