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Apr 2, 2018

Finding order in disorder demonstrates a new state of matter

Posted by in categories: materials, quantum physics

Physicists have identified a new state of matter whose structural order operates by rules more aligned with quantum mechanics than standard thermodynamic theory. In a classical material called artificial spin ice, which in certain phases appears disordered, the material is actually ordered, but in a “topological” form.

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