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[โ€“] lembas@lemm.ee 42 points 9 months ago (6 children)

The headline is a straight up lie. As per the article itself, it was conceived of in 1966 and experimentally confirmed in 2020.

[โ€“] Halvdan@sopuli.xyz 13 points 9 months ago

Not quite. If I understood correctly, Nagaoka predicted magnetism in a thin material with electron deficiency. This happened in a thin material with 50% excess of electrons, which arguably is different or at least something Nagaoka didn't exactly predict.

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