"We were missing pieces of the puzzle." An illustration shows the "half-fire, half-ice" state (bottom) and its counterpart, "half-ice, half-fire" (top); the plot on the right of magnetic entropy ...

A discovery that defies the laws of physics has been unveiled. It is a controversial, strange matter because it is a combination of two elements that do not integrate. Half ice, half fire. In other ...

A ferrimagnet is one in which two spin states are found, like Sr 3 CuIrO 6. As laid out in the team's 2024 paper of their 2016 discovery, the strange, half-fire, half ice phase can be induced by an ...