Electrons become fractions of themselves in graphene, study finds
phys.org
The electron is the basic unit of electricity, as it carries a single negative charge. This is what we're taught in high school physics, and it is overwhelmingly the case in most materials in nature.

Graphene: is there anything it can’t do (aside from be manufactured at scale, anyway)

  • jarfil@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    moiré superlattice

    IIRC, they’ve been shown to change material responses to both photons and phonons. Makes me wonder whether in this case they’re seeing actual “fractional quanta” (kind of a contradiction in itself), or “just” an interaction with the moiré pattern (still interesting).