Physicists trap electrons in a 3D crystal for the first time

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• Cicraft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Silly electron just get out as per usual

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• Mechaguana@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Trapped in a crystal? How do you even make a crystal like this

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  • jopepa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Very small rocks … with some kind of tiny furnace, bitty crucible, and naturally a wee glass blower.

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• galilette@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Trapping electrons in a crystal” is such a nonsensical way of conveying the idea of a flat band. Most isolated crystals trap all the electrons they have inside of them, or else the world will be full of free roaming electrons!

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