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Weird new electron behaviour thrills physicists

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Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Electrons in stacked sheets of staggered graphene collectively act as though they have fractional charges at ultralow temperatures.Credit: Ramon Andrade 3DCiencia/Science Photo Library Two teams have observed that electrons, which usually have a charge of −1, … Read more

Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists

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Electrons in stacked sheets of staggered graphene collectively act as though they have fractional charges at ultra-low temperatures.Credit: Ramon Andrade 3DCiencia/Science Photo Library Minneapolis, Minnesota Last May, a team led by physicists at the University of Washington in Seattle observed something peculiar. When the scientists ran an electrical current across two atom-thin sheets of molybdenum … Read more