After Years of Searching, Physicists Observe Electrons Flow Into Fluid-Like Whirlpools

FIONA MACDONALD10 JULY 2022

For the first time, physicists have witnessed something incredibly exciting: electrons forming whirlpools just like a fluid.

This behavior is one that scientists have long predicted, but never observed before. And it could be the key to developing more efficient and faster next-generation electronics.

"Electron vortices are expected in theory, but there's been no direct proof, and seeing is believing," says one of the researchers behind the new study, physicist Leonid Levitov from MIT.

"Now we've seen it, and it's a clear signature of being in this new regime, where electrons behave as a fluid, not as individual particles."

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