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A glass of ice water offers a familiar example of two phases existing at the same time. The same substance can appear as both liquid water and solid ice. In certain quantum materials, different phases can also coexist, although the underlying behavior is far more complex.
MIT physicists have now uncovered new details about how two distinct forms of electron organization can emerge within the same quantum material.
The findings, published in Nature P...
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