New Spin on Quantum Chaos (IMAGE)

University of Utah

New Spin on Quantum Chaos

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Brian Saam, a University of Utah physicist, used this NMR spectrometer for a study demonstrating a fundamental new property in the magnetic "spins" of atoms: a system that always has been described by modern quantum physics but that appears to have behavior predicted by chaos theory, which is based on three-century old classical physics.

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Eric Sorte, University of Utah

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