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Quantum criticality in your car bumper

Jan 9, 2003

Over the past few years, condensed-matter physicists have become fascinated by the phenomenon of quantum phase transitions. We know that new forms of order develop within a material by way of phase transitions and that they can drastically change its properties.

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