Water-suspended carbon nanotubes move more slowly in green light, suggesting that excited electrons in the tubes couple to the water through ‘quantum friction’.
10 June 2026
Water-suspended carbon nanotubes move more slowly in green light, suggesting that excited electrons in the tubes couple to the water through ‘quantum friction’.
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Nikita Kavokine
Nikita Kavokine is in the Quantum Plumbing Lab, EPFL, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland.
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