Best of Last Week–Magnetic devils staircase, a skinlike display and conscious mind might be less in control than thought
Monday, June 29, 2015 - 07:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—It was an interesting week in physics as an international team of researchers found that quantum coherence and quantum entanglement are two sides of the same coin—they found a way to show that the two are operationally equivalent. Also, another international team observed a magnetic "devil's staircase"—microscopic analysis of cobalt oxide revealed multiple instances of magnetic structures with degenerate or equal magnetic energies.