More information: Weiguo Yin et al, Phase Switch Driven by the Hidden Half-Ice, Half-Fire State in a Ferrimagnet, Physical Review Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.266701 . On arXiv ...

U.S. government scientists have developed a new phase of matter dubbed 'half ice, half fire,' which unites opposing electron spins in a unique magnet.

An abstract file image of fire and ice. golubovy/iStock / Getty Images Plus "Half-ice, half-fire" is actually the hidden twin of the "half-fire, half-ice" phase the duo described in Sr3CuIrO6 ...

The "half-ice, half-fire" phase is the twin state of the "half-fire, half-ice" phase discovered by Yin, Tsvelik, and Christopher Roth, their 2015 undergraduate summer intern who is now a postdoc ...

It's the twin of the "half fire, half ice" state first observed by the same team at Brookhaven National Laboratory — physicists Weiguo Yin and Alexei Tsvelik, alongside their then intern ...