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Scientists have created crystals where electrons behave as if they live in a fourth spatial dimension.

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MIT researchers, working at the MagLab, discovered a new family of crystals stacked with a slight twist where electrons behave as if they inhabit an effectively four-dimensional landscape. The phenomenon could lead to new quantum materials.

Source: MagLab

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