The new phase comes in the form of a pattern of electron spins—half of which are highly ordered, or "cold", and the rest of ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered a new phase a matter called ...

Now, the recent work, spearheaded by Yin, has revealed that "half fire, half ice" has a hidden and opposite state in which the hot and cold spins swap positions. The team identified an extremely ...

Half Ice, Half Fire'—and It Could Rewrite the Future Matter is an inquisitive subject for scientists to investigate. Despite ...

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a brand-new phase of matter in a ...

"Next, we are going to explore the fire-ice phenomenon in systems with quantum spins and with additional lattice, charge, and orbital degrees of freedom," said Yin. "The door to new possibilities ...

For the first time in history, a new, peculiar condition of matter known as "half ice, half fire" was produced. A new ...

It's the twin of the "half fire, half ice" state first observed by the same team at Brookhaven National Laboratory — ...