Scientists recreate a bizarre quantum effect that stops a particle coldhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261011211554.htm
Oxford physicists have recreated a bizarre quantum effect in which a particle responds to a magnetic field without ever traveling through it. Using a hybrid quantum computer, they demonstrated how introducing a simulated magnetic flux could completely halt a particle's movement through quantum interference. The experiment brings a decades-old prediction into a new setting where matter and quantum fields influence one another.