News From the Field Quantum Chaos Unveiled?
August 6, 2008
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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.
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Source University of Utah
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