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So is a permanent magnet also quantum matter? Classical physics says the net magnetization of a solid is zero.


That is a good point, because the way I was taught it is that ferromagnetism is one of the few purely quantum mechanical phenomena we see in everyday life. However, people don't really refer to it as "quantum matter". I think you could argue that people have had some sort of heuristic description since long before quantum was known about.




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