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		rubidium on Dec 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MIT discovers a new state of matter, a new kind of... You may want to read about the discovery that earned three researchers the 1998 Nobel prize then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_quantum_Hall_effect Though, you usually need to take graduate level solid state course to get to understanding it.

Retric on Dec 20, 2012 [–]

My vary limited understanding of that was it was closer to an emergent state on a surface vs. something that ever applied to an individual atom. Can you clarify what's going on?

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