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Heidelberg physicists just united two opposing quantum theories

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Physicists at Heidelberg University's Institute for Theoretical Physics unified two competing quantum models—the Fermi polaron quasiparticle model and Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe—that have been treated separately for decades, resolving a fundamental puzzle about how impurities behave in many-particle quantum systems.

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