Golden ratio discovered in a quantum world
Science • January 2010 • Views: 406
Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fr Materialien und Energie (HZB, Germany), in cooperation with colleagues from Oxford and Bristol Universities, as well as the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, have for the first time observed a nanoscale symmetry hidden in solid state matter. They have measured the signatures of a symmetry showing the same attributes as the golden ratio famous from art and architecture.