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Investigation of the quark-gluon plasma with the ALICE experiment

"The quark-gluon plasma, or QGP, is a state of matter in which quarks and gluons, the elementary building blocks of ordinary baryonic matter (as protons and neutrons)..." – By Luisa Cifarelli, and Francesca Bellini

Gravity and Quantum Entanglement

"The holographic entanglement entropy proposals give an explicit geometric encoding of spatially ordered quantum entanglement in continuum quantum field theory..." – By Mukund Rangamani and Veronika Hubeny

What's New to the OREs

In November 2024, 76 new articles and 12 revised articles, spread across 20 subjects, have been published on the Oxford Research Encyclopedias platform.

ORE Food Studies is Now Available via Subscription and Perpetual Access

On October 23, after a successful free period during development, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies has been made available via subscription and perpetual access to libraries and institutions worldwide.

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