For nearly 40 years, materials called 'strange metals' have flummoxed quantum physicists, defying explanation by operating outside the normal rules of electricity.
flow with zero resistance at low enough temperatures). That relationship suggests that understanding strange metals could help researchers identify new kinds of superconductivity.
The new theory is based on a combination of two properties of strange metals. First, their electrons can become quantum mechanically entangled with one another, binding their fates, and they remain entangled even when distantly separated. Second, strange metals have a nonuniform, patchwork-like arrangement of atoms.
Neither property alone explains the oddities of strange metals, but taken together,"everything just falls into place," says Patel, who works as a Flatiron Research Fellow at the CCQ. Patel says that a better understanding of strange metals could help physicists develop and fine-tune new superconductors for applications such as quantum computers.
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