In an atomically thin stack of semiconductors, a mechanism unseen in any natural substance causes electrons’ spins to align.
  • lembas@lemm.ee
    477·
    10 months ago

    The headline is a straight up lie. As per the article itself, it was conceived of in 1966 and experimentally confirmed in 2020.

    • st4n13l@lemmy.world
      32·
      10 months ago

      I get what you’re saying, but you also wouldn’t say it was discovered in 1966 as it was simply theorized without any direct evidence. A lot of things are theorized before they are actually discovered to exist.

      • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
        62·
        10 months ago

        That’s what discovery is: realizing that something exists and describing it.

        You’re talking about creating, using, verifying, observing, etc. There are lots of things Einstein discovered that we are still verifying. It doesn’t mean he didn’t “discover” general relativity.

    • Halvdan@sopuli.xyz
      12·
      10 months ago

      Not quite. If I understood correctly, Nagaoka predicted magnetism in a thin material with electron deficiency. This happened in a thin material with 50% excess of electrons, which arguably is different or at least something Nagaoka didn’t exactly predict.