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While magnons are known to occur naturally they do not want to appear next to each other and will repel as soon as possible, dissipating that energy. However when the researchers shone terahertz light waves to excite the spins in a material with the chemical composition of BaCo2V2O8 they created magnon pairs that were bound together with nowhere for that energy to dissipate.

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They remain next to each other for at least 18 picoseconds. So its a very short time. but its enough for the detection to occur, continues Bernier. And it was surprising that it exists because in a solid theres supposed to be a lot of channels for dissipation. So, it should have been really easy to for this state to dissipate. But it turns out that we can observe it which was the big breakthrough.

While uses for this breakthrough are theoretical it could have the potential to drastically increase privacy when telecommunicating.

Theres this race going on right now about trying to find ways to communicate using quantum effects, says Bernier. It is possible that these bound state could be used to alter transport in spin chains, which is one of the possible devices that could that could be used for quantum telecommunication.

For now, physicist will be on the hunt for more materials that contain these exotically bound objects.

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