{"id":210469,"date":"2025-04-03T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-discover-half-ice-half-fire-a-new-exotic-phase-of-matter"},"modified":"2025-04-03T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:08:08","slug":"scientists-discover-half-ice-half-fire-a-new-exotic-phase-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-discover-half-ice-half-fire-a-new-exotic-phase-of-matter","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover \u201cHalf-Ice, Half-Fire\u201d \u2014 A new exotic phase of matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-half-ice-half-fire-a-new-exotic-phase-of-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discovering and controlling exotic physical states is key in condensed matter physics and materials science. It has the potential to drive advancements in quantum computing and spintronics.<\/p>\n<p><center>- Advertisement -<\/center><\/p>\n<p>While studying a ferrimagnet model, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory uncovered a new phase of matter called \u201chalf-ice, half-fire.\u201d This state is a twin to the \u201chalf-fire, half-ice\u201d phase discovered in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovering and controlling exotic physical states is key in condensed matter physics and materials science. It has the potential to drive advancements in quantum computing and spintronics. \u2014 Advertisement \u2014 While studying a ferrimagnet model, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory uncovered a new phase of matter called \u201chalf-ice, half-fire.\u201d This [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210469","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}