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More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

Blinking dots Photoluminescence image of individual quantum dots used in the experiment. Under time-dependent driving, the system is driven out-of-equilibrium and their blinking trajectories are ...