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Can a solid be a superfluid? Engineering a novel supersolid state from layered 2D materials

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Physicists predict that layered electronic 2D semiconductors can host a curious quantum phase of matter called the supersolid. This counterintuitive quantum material simultaneously forms a rigid crystal, and yet at the same time allows particles to flow without friction, with all the particles belong to the same single quantum state.

Source: ScienceDaily.com