And though I .... understand all mysteries, and all knowledge;....and have not Love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:2
"A ubiquitous quantum phenomenon has been detected in a large class of
superconducting materials, fueling a growing belief among physicists
that an unknown organizing principle governs the collective behavior of
particles and determines how they spread energy and information.
Understanding this organizing principle could be a key into “quantum
strangeness at its deepest level,” said Subir Sachdev.
.....found that other exotic superconducting compounds —
strontium ruthenates, pnictides, tetramethyltetrathiafulvalenes and more
— also burn energy at what appears to be a maximum allowed rate.
Strikingly, this speed limit is
linked to the numerical value of Planck’s constant, the fundamental
quantity of quantum mechanics representing the smallest possible action
that can be taken in nature.
“When you see that, you know
you’re touching on something very, very deep and fundamental,” said Louis Taillefer.
This energy-burning behavior occurs when the cuprates and other 
exotic
compounds are in a “strange metal” phase, in which they resist the flow
of electricity more than conventional metals. But when they’re cooled to
a critical temperature, these strange metals transform into perfect,
lossless conductors of electricity.
Exactly what electrons, the carriers of electricity, are doing in
strange metals isn’t known. But experts hypothesize that they may be
organizing themselves into a “maximally scrambled” quantum state, in
which the properties of each electron depend on those of every other.
This state of maximum scrambling might allow the electrons to scatter
off one another and spread energy as quickly as the laws of quantum
mechanics permit.
“Here we have entanglement of millions of electrons leading to a whole
state of matter,” Sachdev said, “so we are really exploring the frontier
of entanglement.”
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