Rice’s Quantum Simulator Offers Researchers a Glimpse of Spin-Charge Separation

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH — A quantum simulator at Rice University is giving physicists a clear look at spin-charge separation, the quantum world’s version of the magician’s illusion of sawing a person in half. Published this week in Science, the research has implications for quantum computing and electronics with atom-scale wires. Electrons are minuscule, subatomic particles that cannot be divided. […]