Landau levels revealed: using scanning tunneling spectroscopy, physicists at University of Warwick revealed the first image of Landau's prediction for the homonymous levels. Those were predictions that made Landau win the Physics Nobel Prize in 1930, but we were only able to picture them now. Landau predicted that in a clean system, the electrons would take on the form of concentric rings. Interesting how this could also be used to give a definition of kilogram (which is still debated) as the spaces between the rings could be as universal marker for weight, being dependent on electron's mass.
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P.S.: as you might have noticed this was posted ridiculously late and it is missing description for most of the news. I apologize for the first, and about the second: from now on I decided to only write something about the first news and just post links about other major news. This is to keep the FSND feature alive as I will not have as much free time now. I just started a PhD, have mercy on me!
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