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Physicists in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis are gaining quantum insights from imperfect crystals. The research supported by the Center for Quantum Leaps advances the field of quantum simulation using an atomic-level quantum system.
Far from orderly "brick-by-brick" assembly, the internal structures of cells are grown in stochastic bursts, according to physicist Shankar Mukherji in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, author of a Jan. 6 study in Physical Review Letters.