For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in a Quantum Material

From tiny snowflakes to the jagged fork of a lightning bolt, it’s not hard to find examples of fractals in the natural world. So it might come as a surprise that, until now, there have remained some places these endlessly repeating geometrical patterns have never been seen.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in a Quantum Material

From tiny snowflakes to the jagged fork of a lightning bolt, it’s not hard to find examples of fractals in the natural world. So it might come as a surprise that, until now, there have remained some places these endlessly repeating geometrical patterns have never been seen.

more…

So now we have: ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, paramagnetic and diamagnetic – and this new one neodymium nickel oxide as fractal.

Nice work.

> Fresnel lenses are stacked layers of a transparent material with ridges that redirect electromagnetic radiation. While the lenses in lighthouses can be metres across, the ones Comin and his team developed were just 150 microns wide. The end result was an X-ray beam small enough to detect the fine scale of magnetic domains across a thin film of lab-grown neodymium nickel oxide.

A Fresnel lens for X-ray microscopy, that’s new to me.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in a Quantum Material

From tiny snowflakes to the jagged fork of a lightning bolt, it’s not hard to find examples of fractals in the natural world. So it might come as a surprise that, until now, there have remained some places these endlessly repeating geometrical patterns have never been seen.

more…

So now we have: ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, paramagnetic and diamagnetic – and this new one neodymium nickel oxide as fractal.

Nice work.

> Fresnel lenses are stacked layers of a transparent material with ridges that redirect electromagnetic radiation. While the lenses in lighthouses can be metres across, the ones Comin and his team developed were just 150 microns wide. The end result was an X-ray beam small enough to detect the fine scale of magnetic domains across a thin film of lab-grown neodymium nickel oxide.

A Fresnel lens for X-ray microscopy, that’s new to me.

I don’t see how something that has an indeterminate position can have “endlessly repeating geometrical patterns “.

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in a Quantum Material

From tiny snowflakes to the jagged fork of a lightning bolt, it’s not hard to find examples of fractals in the natural world. So it might come as a surprise that, until now, there have remained some places these endlessly repeating geometrical patterns have never been seen.

more…

So now we have: ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, paramagnetic and diamagnetic – and this new one neodymium nickel oxide as fractal.

Nice work.

> Fresnel lenses are stacked layers of a transparent material with ridges that redirect electromagnetic radiation. While the lenses in lighthouses can be metres across, the ones Comin and his team developed were just 150 microns wide. The end result was an X-ray beam small enough to detect the fine scale of magnetic domains across a thin film of lab-grown neodymium nickel oxide.

A Fresnel lens for X-ray microscopy, that’s new to me.

I don’t see how something that has an indeterminate position can have “endlessly repeating geometrical patterns “.

Fractals in nature are never “endless”. I gather we’re just talking here about a curve of number vs size, number of domains as a function of size is (relatively) independent of both the temperature and the area of observation.

So it’s sort of like random sphere packing with a Rosin-Rammler sphere size distribution – or something like that – IIUC.

It would be interesting and I assume they would exist to find fractal patterns in off world examples

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

So now we have: ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, paramagnetic and diamagnetic – and this new one neodymium nickel oxide as fractal.

Nice work.

> Fresnel lenses are stacked layers of a transparent material with ridges that redirect electromagnetic radiation. While the lenses in lighthouses can be metres across, the ones Comin and his team developed were just 150 microns wide. The end result was an X-ray beam small enough to detect the fine scale of magnetic domains across a thin film of lab-grown neodymium nickel oxide.

A Fresnel lens for X-ray microscopy, that’s new to me.

I don’t see how something that has an indeterminate position can have “endlessly repeating geometrical patterns “.

Fractals in nature are never “endless”. I gather we’re just talking here about a curve of number vs size, number of domains as a function of size is (relatively) independent of both the temperature and the area of observation.

So it’s sort of like random sphere packing with a Rosin-Rammler sphere size distribution – or something like that – IIUC.

If you can’t have fractals at the quantum level, then obviously you can’t have never ending levels in nature, but I don’t see how you can have even one level at quantum scale.

Maybe I should read the link.