An experiment with a carbon material in a magnetic field has revealed a novel way for electrons to move, which doesn't fully ...

Magnetic materials in a quantum spin liquid phase are of great interest in the pursuit of exotic state of matter and quantum computation. But in the quantum realm, things are not always what they seem ...

A mysterious magnetic material once thought to host an exotic “quantum spin liquid” has turned out to be something entirely ...

Physicists are rapidly expanding the traditional menu of matter beyond solids, liquids, gases and plasmas, uncovering exotic phases that behave in ways no classroom diagram ever captured. In the ...

A quantum spin liquid is a phase of matter in which the magnetic moments in a material do not align or freeze, even at ...

In the natural world, many things come in mirror-image pairs. Your left and right hands are a perfect example—they look alike but can’t be perfectly superimposed. This idea, called chirality or ...