{"id":209697,"date":"2025-03-25T14:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/half-ice-half-fire-physicists-discover-new-phase-of-matter-in-a-magnetic-material"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:03:27","slug":"half-ice-half-fire-physicists-discover-new-phase-of-matter-in-a-magnetic-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/half-ice-half-fire-physicists-discover-new-phase-of-matter-in-a-magnetic-material","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Half ice, half fire\u2019: Physicists discover new phase of matter in a magnetic material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/half-ice-half-fire-physicists-discover-new-phase-of-matter-in-a-magnetic-material3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new phase of matter while studying a model system of a magnetic material.<\/p>\n<p>The phase is a never-before-seen pattern of electron spins\u2014the tiny \u201cup\u201d and \u201cdown\u201d magnetic moments carried by every electron. It consists of a combination of highly ordered \u201ccold\u201d spins and highly disordered \u201chot\u201d spins, and it has thus been dubbed \u201chalf ice, half fire.\u201d The researchers discovered the new phase while studying a one-dimensional model of a type of magnetic material called a ferrimagnet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHalf ice, half fire\u201d is notable not only because it has never been observed before, but also because it is able to drive extremely sharp switching between phases in the material at a reasonable, finite temperature. This phenomenon could one day result in applications in the energy and information technology industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new phase of matter while studying a model system of a magnetic material. The phase is a never-before-seen pattern of electron spins\u2014the tiny \u201cup\u201d and \u201cdown\u201d magnetic moments carried by every electron. It consists of a combination of highly ordered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209697","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}