<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>Scientists from National Taiwan University discovered a rare collaboration between electricity and magnetism in the 2D ferromagnet Fe₅GeTe₂ at room temperature.</li><li>The material's unique iron atoms allow electric and magnetic effects to interact closely, creating synchronized quantum effects like charge density waves, the Kondo effect, and ferromagnetism in a repeating pattern.</li><li>Using scanning tunneling microscopy, researchers observed the synchronized quantum states forming a √3 × √3 superlattice, a phenomenon predicted but never directly observed before.</li><li>The discovery challenges the belief that electrical and magnetic properties must compete, offering new possibilities for quantum technology advancement with smaller, faster, and more powerful devices.</li></ul>

Scientists witness a rare quantum dance in a single sheet of atoms

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