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The rush to find housemates – and a place to live – for the next academic year has long been a source of worry for first-year students.

This performance is triple the longest lifetime documented in laboratory experiments and nearly fifteen times greater than the standard used in industrial quantum processors.

Scientists have long known that electrons in thin, two-dimensional materials can solidify into Wigner crystals, a concept first proposed in 1934.

"It's amazing that all of the players that are coming to play in those events, and hopefully that continues for a long time."

Chess matches can be agonizingly long, lasting for numerous hours at the professional level.