Scientists have discovered a potential new state of matter.
This may help explain phenomena like superconductivity.
Superconductivity is extensively used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particle accelerators, magnetic fusion devices, and microwave filters.
Researchers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US showed that among superconducting materials in high magnetic field.
This phenomenon of electronic symmetry breaking is common.
The ability to find similarities and differences among classes of materials with phenomena such as this helps.
It establishes the essential ingredient that cause novel functionalities such as superconductivity.
The high-magnetic-field state of the heavy fermion superconductor CeRhIn5 revealed a state in which the material’s electrons aligned in a different way.
These are in a way to apparently reduce the symmetry of the original crystal.
This something that now appears to be universal among unconventional superconductors.
Unconventional superconductivity develops near a phase boundary separating magnetically ordered and magnetically disordered phases of a material.
