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 ...

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,” Yin said in a new press statement.

U.S. government scientists have developed a new phase of matter dubbed 'half ice, half fire,' which unites opposing electron ...