Is space like a chessboard?
Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 08:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Unveiling a concept that is at once novel and deceptively simple, physicists have found that two-valued spin can arise from having two types of tiles -- light and dark -- in a chessboard-like space. And they found this model working on a surprisingly practical problem, how to make better transistors out of a new material called graphene.