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Rice scientists pull off quantum coup

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28 pointsrbanffy19 comments

Headline is information-free, I'd replace it with the subtitle...

  Rice scientists validate method for guided discovery of 3D flat-band material

I'd also add a [University] after "Rice", for clarity

yeah i thought it was going to be about transgenic rice when i clicked.

I was expecting am article about a new trend in asian car mods....

While I appreciate your attempt to provide a more-meaningful headline, that's a foreign language to me and is marginally less useful (or at least equally information-free insofar as I can't do anything with the information).

I mistakenly thought that the coup would involve both rice and quantum physics.

I was expecting at least an advancement in rice crispy superpositioning technology.

Schroedingers treat is simultaneously in the pantry and my stomach until you actually check the pantry.

Watch out Ozempic.

I assumed they'd bred a very, very small variety of rice.

I think you could make a case for C4 rice fitting that description.

I was hoping for a C4 Golden Rice announcement, myself

This is an interesting material science result as it shows the power of an interaction that could be exploited in the future.

Rice University is also where a lot of graphene research occurs.

With some of the current clever innovations in crystallography combining the three dimensional and two dimensional materials, I expect a progression to logic gates and Single Instruction Multiple Data Paths to be a new way to leverage older approaches.

I don’t see that quantum computing will be an easy future direction currently but Rice scientists have surprised me in the past.

Read the article - unfortunately i don’t know enough about flatband materials. So i don’t know what benefits this discovery may have. What is a good place to start to learn more about that?

If you’re comfortable with band structure, I’d recommend looking into the states that arise in flat band systems e.g. quantum Hall states and spin liquids. Otherwise, you can read some electronic structure books to get a sense of how flat band systems differ from the traditional approach. I recommend John Singleton’s book from the Oxford series.

As an aside, it’s a lot like how people talk about non-Fermi liquids (nFLs). The positive definition of nFL is hard to come by in texts, so when someone talks about nFL behavior, you have to ask them what measurement/model they are studying.

Rice University scientists

USDA-ARS crop development researchers thank you.

Ditto this rice eater from Asia. :-)

The discussion on the flat bands reminds me a lot of the old LK-99 papers, where they were targeting the magnetism.

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