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Fractons’ exotic flow

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The hydrodynamic description of many-body quantum systems is a key part of our understanding of out-of-equilibrium physics. Exotic, highly constrained quantum particles called fractons require a treatment that goes beyond hydrodynamics.

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Fig. 1: The macroscopic, mesoscopic and microscopic scales that are the basis of hydrodynamics.

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Castro-Alvaredo, O. Fractons’ exotic flow. Nat. Phys. 18, 858–859 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01640-w

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