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Bringing the noise

Noise is usually viewed as the bane of measurements. But a neat experiment has confirmed a long-standing prediction for an exotic electronic state of matter through the increase of noise in charge transmission.

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Nayak, C. Bringing the noise. Nature 466, 572–573 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466572a

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