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Robert Laughlin | The Brayton Battery
The Department of Physics at Stanford University hosted a special colloquium featuring…
Shoucheng Zhang | Search and Discovery of the Majorana Fermion | 2 of 2
The Majorana fermion is a hypothetical fermionic particle which is its own anti-particle. …
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Black holes have the remarkable property of irreversibility: if you fall into a black hole you can't get out (classically). This immediately suggested a connection with the other famous irreversibility in physics: the law of increase of entropy.…
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The Department of Physics at Stanford University hosted a special colloquium featuring Robert Laughlin, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences.