{"id":184609,"date":"2024-03-09T02:02:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/when-the-music-changes-so-does-the-dance-controlling-cooperative-electronic-states-in-kagome-metals"},"modified":"2024-03-09T02:02:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:02:39","slug":"when-the-music-changes-so-does-the-dance-controlling-cooperative-electronic-states-in-kagome-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/when-the-music-changes-so-does-the-dance-controlling-cooperative-electronic-states-in-kagome-metals","title":{"rendered":"When the music changes, so does the dance: Controlling cooperative electronic states in kagome metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-the-music-changes-so-does-the-dance-controlling-cooperative-electronic-states-in-kagome-metals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Playing a different soundtrack is, physically speaking, only a minute change of the vibration spectrum, yet its impact on a dance floor is dramatic. People long for this tiny trigger, and as a salsa changes to a tango completely different collective patterns emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Electrons in metals tend to show only one behavior at zero temperature, when all <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/kinetic+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">kinetic energy<\/a> is quenched. One needs to frustrate the electronic interaction to break the dominance of one particular electronic order and allow multiple possible configurations. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-023-02374-z\">Recent results<\/a> published in <i>Nature Physics<\/i> on kagome nets suggest that this triangular lattice is quite effective at doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Named after the Japanese bamboo-basket woven pattern, a two-dimensional (2D) <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/kagome+lattice\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">kagome lattice<\/a> is constructed by a series of corner-sharing triangles. When each corner is occupied with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+moments\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic moments<\/a> with antiferromagnetic correlations, the nearest-neighbor interactions favor anti-aligned spins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing a different soundtrack is, physically speaking, only a minute change of the vibration spectrum, yet its impact on a dance floor is dramatic. People long for this tiny trigger, and as a salsa changes to a tango completely different collective patterns emerge. Electrons in metals tend to show only one behavior at zero temperature, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184609","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}