Producing these hybrid fullerene-quantum dot is a chemical process, rather than a traditional manufacturing one.

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The Sommerfeld effect, a quantum-mechanical process that makes particles more likely to interact with one another in some circumstances and less likely in others, is mostly ignored in particle physics because it applies only in a limited range of conditions.

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