Princeton Physicists Discover Giant, Tuneable Quantum Effect (IMAGE)

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Princeton Physicists Discover Giant, Tuneable Quantum Effect

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When the Princeton researchers turn an external magnetic field in different directions (indicated with arrows), they change the orientation of the linear electron flow above the kagome (six-fold) magnet, as seen in these electron wave interference patterns on the surface of a topological quantum kagome magnet. Each pattern is created in the lab of Princeton Professor Zahid Hasan by a particular direction of the external magnetic field applied on the sample.

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M. Z. Hasan, Jia-Xin Yin, Songtian Sonia Zhang, Princeton University

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