00:04Dirac electrons under certain conditions within a superconducting polymer can act a lot differently from your average electrons.
00:10Scientists have now discovered that they become basically massless, meaning they act more like photons than electrons.
00:16And they also oscillate at the speed of light.
00:19And the researchers say this could change the way we consider quantum computing in the future.
00:23Experts hoping to better understand this phenomenon use what's called electron spin resonance to observe this.
00:28Electrons have a natural rotation and they are charged particles, meaning experts can use a magnetic field to interact with
00:35an electron's magnetically charged poles.
00:37This lets researchers identify unpaired electrons, more specifically Dirac electrons, allowing them to better understand these wild particles in their
00:44agitated state.
00:46And they found that not only are they lighter and move more quickly, but they also move in four dimensions.
00:50But maybe not the way you might imagine.
00:52The fourth dimension is the electrons energy level, with the researchers saying this has allowed them to identify that their
00:58speed is not a constant either.
01:00They say the speed depends on the temperature and magnetic fields within the material, which they say could one day
01:05be important when using these materials as conductors for quantum computing.
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