Phase-change memory gets efficiency boost
Superlattice-based structure is flexible and 100 times more energy efficient than previous memory devices of its kind
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Supersolidity enters a second dimension
Precisely tailored atom trap proves key to creating elusive 2D supersolid
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Water transforms into gold-coloured metallic solution
New laboratory technique bypasses the need for astronomically high pressures
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Ultrathin glass films exhibit exotic liquid phase
New form of glass is extremely dense and highly stable
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Surmounting supercooling to improve heat storage technologies
Silver nanoparticles stimulate crystallization in supercooled solutions, enabling potential improvements in heat-storing materials
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Electrons in twisted graphene ‘freeze’ when heated
Entropy measurements reveal an unexpected phase transition analogous to the Pomeranchuk effect in helium-3
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Perovskites could be platforms for exciton condensates
Appearance of exciton vortices in hybrid halides suggests a possible route to Bose–Einstein condensates of electron–hole pairs at liquid nitrogen temperatures
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Machine learning spots topological phase transitions in experimental data
Diffusion-maps method needs no prior knowledge about a physical system
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Black metal hydrogen emerges at high pressures
Results of advanced simulations may reconcile data from several recent – and seemingly contradictory – experiments
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‘Reluctant’ metals make a new state of matter
New computation model of "strange" metals could shed light on high-temperature superconductors and black holes
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