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Scientists push the limits of quantum mechanics, discovering light particles that exist in 37 different dimensions.

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Quantum mechanics has long held that all observable ... Using a solution to the Yang-Baxter equation, an equation useful for describing the interchange of particles, along with group theory ...

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University have proposed a new approach to the asymptotic description of open nonlinear ...