Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered a new phase a matter called “half-ice, half-fire.” This elemental moniker is a reference to the ordered ...

Scientists have described a ‘half ice, half fire’ state of matter that takes advantage of opposing electron spins. | Credit: THOM LEACH / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Physicists have ...

Research into 'half fire, half ice' began in 2012. Brookhaven National Laboratory physicists Weiguo Yan and Alexei Tsverik were part of a collaborative project led by John Hill, studying a ...

It is a controversial, strange matter because it is a combination of two elements that do not integrate. Half ice, half fire. In other words, it freezes and burns at the same time. As much as it ...

They called this the “half fire, half ice” state. Now, researchers have found that under some extremely specific conditions, the opposite state forms. The curious material in which they made ...

Physicists have discovered a new phase of matter, dubbed "half ice, half fire," that could open the door to new advancements in fields such as quantum computing. The new phase combines a number of "up ...

Scientists have discovered a new state of matter, branded 'half ice, half fire', which could spur developments in quantum computing. Researchers Weiguo Yin and Alexei Tsvelik, from the U.S. Department ...

called «half-ice, half-fire». It is noted that the corresponding phase of the quantum state was found in ferromagnets with ordered (cold) and disordered (hot) electron spins a fundamental ...

The specific ferrimagnet in which "half ice, half fire" was observed is Sr3CuIrO6, a compound that consists of strontium, copper, iridium and oxygen. It's the same material in which the team ...