Electrons in ultraclean carbon nanotubes can tunnel through barriers in a way not previously observed for particles with mass in condensed-matter physics experiments.
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Choi, MS. When a barrier is not an obstacle. Nature Nanotech 4, 347–348 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.134
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