In condensed matter physics, a quantum wire is an electrically conducting wire in which quantum effects influence the transport properties.
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“But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.”
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