https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1101.4994/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160155urn:hackerpapers:mention:1101.4994:10160155Wed, 02 Sep 2015 16:03:58 GMT<p>&gt;&quot;Both experiment and calculation seem to indicate that water confined by solid walls to tiny regions of space, whose size is comparable to that of a few hundred molecules, begins to exhibit quantum mechanical effects, including delocalization and quantum coherence.&quot; Sounds like a possible source of random entropy for crypto :-) I did the Wolfram Alpha query[1] and it turns out that 100 molecules of water has a volume of 2.992 yL (yoctoliters, 10^-24 L). I didn&#x27;t think we were up to yocto-technology yet! The paper that seems to describe this is called &quot;Evidence of a new quantum state of…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1101.4994/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.mes-hall