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Physicists Capture First-Ever Image of an Electron Crystal

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Electrons are typically seen flitting around their atoms, but a team of physicists has now imaged the particles in a very different state: nestled together in a quantum phase called a Wigner crystal, without a nucleus at their core.

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Source: gizmodo.com