"Scientists discovered a strange new state of matter — “half ice, half fire” — where hot and cold electron spins coexist, potentially unlocking powerful tech for energy and quantum storage. Credit: SciTechDaily.com" (ScitechDaily, Half Ice, Half Fire: A Bizarre New State of Matter That Could Reshape Physics)
"In a groundbreaking study, scientists at Brookhaven National Lab uncovered a new phase of matter dubbed “half ice, half fire” — a bizarre mix of cold, orderly electron spins and hot, chaotic ones." (ScitechDaily, Half Ice, Half Fire: A Bizarre New State of Matter That Could Reshape Physics)
"The “half-ice, half-fire” phase is the twin state of the “half-fire, half-ice” phase discovered by Yin, Tsvelik, and Christopher Roth, their 2015 undergraduate summer intern who is now a postdoc at the Flatiron Institute. They describe the discovery in a paper published in early 2024." (ScitechDaily, Half Ice, Half Fire: A Bizarre New State of Matter That Could Reshape Physics)
"But the full story goes back to 2012, when Yin and Tsvelik were part of a multi-institutional collaboration, led by Brookhaven physicist John Hill, that was studying Sr3CuIrO6, a magnetic compound of strontium, copper, iridium, and oxygen. This research led to two papers, an experiment-driven study in 2012 and a theory-driven study in 2013, both published in PRL." (ScitechDaily, Half Ice, Half Fire: A Bizarre New State of Matter That Could Reshape Physics)
"Yin and Tsvelik continued to look into the phase behaviors of Sr3CuIrO6 and, in 2016, found the “half-fire, half-ice” phase. In this state, which is induced by a critical external magnetic field, the “hot” spins on the copper sites are fully disordered on the atomic lattice and have smaller magnetic moments, while the “cold” spins on the iridium sites are fully ordered and have larger magnetic moments. The work was published in Physical Review B." (ScitechDaily, Half Ice, Half Fire: A Bizarre New State of Matter That Could Reshape Physics)
"This image shows a graphical interpretation of the “half-ice, half-fire” and “half-fire, half-ice” states (left). The plot (right) shows the magnetic entropy change in the magnetic field (h) versus temperature (T) plane. The black dot at zero temperature indicates where the half-fire, half-ice state appears. The dashed line indicates where the half-ice, half-fire state hides. Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory" (ScitechDaily, Half Ice, Half Fire: A Bizarre New State of Matter That Could Reshape Physics)
The Schrödinger's cat state can mean that material is hot and cold at the same time. The universe is one of those interesting things hot and cold. At the same time. When the universe's expansion continues the chaos or entropy in the system grows. Electrons start to spin more chaotic if the quantum field pressure decreases. So when the universe expands. That gives electrons more space to travel and spin.
That means: energy decrease causes an effect that looks like rising temperature. Decreasing energy pressure raises entropy in the system. When the size of the universe increases that causes an effect that looks like temperature rising. In the young universe energy and pressure caused an effect. That the system was in a very good order. But, decreasing density and pressure causes entropy in the system to rise. So the universe behaves oppositely than it should.
The decreasing energy level causes the effect. That the material behaves like it's hot. When pressure decreases that makes the system behave. Like it turns warmer.
In the nanoscale, we can see that effect in the cases. Where the pressure decreases. If there is water in the chamber low pressure gives water molecules more space to move and oscillate That causes an effect that the boiling temperature decreases when pressure decreases.
Schrödinger's cat in the material is something incredible. That means the small-scale Scrödinger's cat effect.
Researchers created a material. That is cold and hot at the same time. That material is the same.
Time well-ordered "cold" and chaotic "hot" spin states in the electron shell.
That thing is one of the most interesting things in the world.
The ability to turn electron shells more chaotic without transmitting energy into them is one of the most interesting things. In the history of research.
When the material is hot and cold. At the same time. There is always space where material can transport energy. When we think about things like how temperature breaks the material the well-ordered structures are easy to break if there is no place where they can put energy. In chaotic systems is more space than in cold systems.
That means energy has more space to go than in well-ordered systems and electrons are moving in larger areas. So they deliver energy more easily and standing waves between them don't break the system because electrons can jump away from that standing wave.
That means the Schrödinger's cat state in the material can improve things like energy production and nano-and stealth technology. This new material is the thing that can make a revolution in nanotechnology.
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