![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917095928im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Quantum Chaos Unveiled?
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August 6, 2008
![physics graphic](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917095928im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/1physics_l.gif) | A University of Utah study is shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory--which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics--and the modern theory of quantum mechanics. The study demonstrated a fundamental new property--what appears to be chaotic behavior in a quantum system--in the magnetic "spins" within the nuclei or centers of atoms of frozen xenon. Full story |
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