{"id":109466,"date":"2020-07-03T07:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-three-dimensional-phase-diagram-of-heavy-fermion-compound-with-competing-quantum-phases"},"modified":"2020-07-03T07:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T14:03:08","slug":"a-three-dimensional-phase-diagram-of-heavy-fermion-compound-with-competing-quantum-phases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-three-dimensional-phase-diagram-of-heavy-fermion-compound-with-competing-quantum-phases","title":{"rendered":"A three-dimensional phase diagram of heavy-fermion compound with competing quantum phases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-three-dimensional-phase-diagram-of-heavy-fermion-compound-with-competing-quantum-phases2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>URu<sub>2<\/sub>Si<sub>2<\/sub> is a metal that belongs to the family of heavy-fermion compounds in which several quantum phases (e.g., magnetism and superconductivity) can compete or coexist. These metals exhibit small energy scales that are easy to tune, a characteristic that makes them ideal for testing new physical ideas and concepts.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, researchers have often used these compounds to test theories related to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+phase+transitions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum phase transitions<\/a>, quantum criticality and unconventional superconductivity. Studying heavy-fermion metals could ultimately unveil new physical properties of other correlated-electron materials that have shown promise for a wide range of applications, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high-temperature+superconductors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high-temperature superconductors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A research team at the National Laboratory of High Magnetic Fields (LNCMI\/CNRS) in France and Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes, in collaboration with researchers at Okayama University and Tohoku University in Japan, recently carried out a systematic investigation of URu<sub>2<\/sub>Si<sub>2<\/sub> under a combination of high pressures and high magnetic fields. Their paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-020-0927-4\">published in <i>Nature Physics<\/i><\/a>, maps out a phase in the material that is so far poorly understood, delineating a complex three-dimensional phase diagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URu2Si2 is a metal that belongs to the family of heavy-fermion compounds in which several quantum phases (e.g., magnetism and superconductivity) can compete or coexist. These metals exhibit small energy scales that are easy to tune, a characteristic that makes them ideal for testing new physical ideas and concepts. For instance, researchers have often used [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}