"MIT’s recent study elucidates the fractional charge phenomena in pentalayer graphene through enhanced theoretical models highlighting electron interactions and quantum properties. Credit: SciTechDaily.com" (ScitechDaily, A Physics Discovery So Strange It’s Changing Quantum Theory)
Electron's strange behavior in a five-layer graphene can change quantum theory. The thing with graphene and fullerene is that they are homogenous carbon structures. Maybe similar features can exist in some absolute pure monatomic metal structures. We know that when some materials turn pure there is no other than one type of atom in the structure that has features that don't exist other than in absolutely pure materials.
That means those structures can act as one single atom. So it's possible. That electrons can start to orbit those structures like they would be one single atom. So if an electron starts to orbit a molecule that would be an interesting thing. The previous models handled electrons as the single actors.
However, the new model causes an idea. The electrons can also act as an entirety. Normally individual electron jumps into the electron hole. But the new observations tell researchers that it's possible that in a special situation, the electron-hole can jump between atoms.
Normally in electric flow electron jumps between holes in individual atoms. But in graphene or maybe in some other extremely pure materials is possible that the hole can start to travel around the structure and electrons travel behind it. In 2D systems, electrons don't have so much space to change their orbitals as in regular systems.
"While in most materials, electrons have plenty of space to repel each other and zing about as independent agents, the particles are much more confined in two-dimensional structures such as pentalayer graphene. In such tight quarters, the team realized that electrons should also be forced to interact, behaving according to their quantum correlations in addition to their natural repulsion. When the physicists added interelectron interactions to their theory, they found it correctly predicted the winding that Ju observed for pentalayer graphene." (ScitechDaily, A Physics Discovery So Strange It’s Changing Quantum Theory)
Researchers found so-called fractional electron behavior in the 5-layer graphene. They found that the electrons or wave function didn't orbit the entire graphene structure as many times. As they should. That shows that in limited 2D systems, the electron can start to interact with the quantum structure.
The thing is that if the electron orbits the entire graphene and behaves those carbon atoms are like one atom. That thing would be the fundamental model of the quantum interactions.
And that can turn into a new way. To control the quantum systems. The reason why the electron fractional electric values are interesting is that the previous quark and quark systems like protons have fractional values.
Graphene is one of the most fundamental materials in the world. But the interesting thing is can some other absolute pure or monoatomic materials have similar features as graphene. That makes it possible to create many new interesting things.
The link article about this phenomenon is behind this part of this text.
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