In what may be the most exciting news of the week, researchers have made a breakthrough discovery in the search for new states of matter uncovering the much sought-after quantum spin liquid state.
Using experimental technologies, the team, led by the University of Liverpool and McMaster University scientists, has found that the perovskite-related metal oxide, TbInO3, exhibits this unusual and exotic state.
This unique state was theoretically proposed back in the 1970s by the Nobel laureate Philip Anderson, and its materialization is still widely contested.
The state was believed to be achieved in a system of interacting quantum spins and would be referred to as a "liquid" as it is a disordered state in comparison to a ferromagnetic spin state.
This results in magnetic moments that have extraordinary liquid-like properties. For instance, they do not freeze or order even at absolute zero.
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