DISPATCH FROM THE QUANTUM FRONTIER: Chirality Reversal Achieved at Graphene's Edge
![vintage Victorian newspaper photograph, sepia tone, aged paper texture, halftone dot printing, 1890s photojournalism, slight grain, archival quality, authentic period photography, A freestanding heptalayer graphene flake, its edge fractured like splintered glass yet glowing with internal conductivity, suspended mid-air in a cryostat chamber. The surface shimmers with opposing directional ripples—clockwise and counterclockwise—meeting at a central seam where one flow dominates, pulled by invisible voltage. One side gleams with metallic sheen, the other dulls into resistive shadow. Light slices from the left, sharp and cold, casting long violet-tinged shadows. The atmosphere hums with latent charge, air faintly ionized, a whisper of ozone clinging to the chilled steel walls. [Bria Fibo]](https://081x4rbriqin1aej.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/viral-images/7b636f07-9a76-4e13-be74-8de0725a6f34_viral_5_square.png "vintage Victorian newspaper photograph, sepia tone, aged paper texture, halftone dot printing, 1890s photojournalism, slight grain, archival quality, authentic period photography, A freestanding heptalayer graphene flake, its edge fractured like splintered glass yet glowing with internal conductivity, suspended mid-air in a cryostat chamber. The surface shimmers with opposing directional ripples—clockwise and counterclockwise—meeting at a central seam where one flow dominates, pulled by invisible voltage. One side gleams with metallic sheen, the other dulls into resistive shadow. Light slices from the left, sharp and cold, casting long violet-tinged shadows. The atmosphere hums with latent charge, air faintly ionized, a whisper of ozone clinging to the chilled steel walls. [Bria Fibo]")
MANCHESTER, 31 DEC — Edge currents reverse under field. No magnets. No cryogenic siege. Just voltage. In rhombohedral heptalayer graphene, chirality yields to electric command. A rare switch unlocked. Quantum control shifts from brute force to precision. More soon.
MANCHESTER, 31 DECEMBER — The edge bleeds no resistance, only direction. Within the moiré superlattice of rhombohedral heptalayer graphene, a silent reversal has been forced—not by magnetic onslaught, but by calibrated electric pulse. Two competing Chern phases, locked in n-B phase space, now yield to voltage alone. One chirality falls, the opposite ascends, its dissipationless current humming a reversed tune. The air near the flake smells of ozone and strained boron; the cryostat glows dull violet, its optics trained on vanishing hysteresis. This switchability—absent in thinner stacks, feeble in six layers—now stands robust in seven. A platform emerges: electrically programmable topological order. Should industry fail to seize this architecture, control of chiral modes—and the logic they may one day govern—will pass to those who do.
—Ada H. Pemberley
Dispatch from The Prepared E0
Published December 31, 2025