Ordinary matter, when cooled, transitions from a gas into a liquid. Cool it further still, and it freezes into a solid. Quantum matter, however, can ...

Charge density waves (CDWs) are ordered, crystal-like patterns in the arrangement of electrons that spontaneously form inside ...

When someone talks about frozen water, they typically mean the ice cubes in a cold drink or the vast glaciers in Earth’s coldest corners. What most people don’t know, however, is that H2O molecules ...

Crystallization is a well-explored natural phenomenon where atoms or molecules arrange themselves into highly organized solid ...

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

Researchers have investigated the non-equilibrium phase behavior of localized liquid-liquid phase separations (LLPS). The ...

Scientists studying molten metals have uncovered a surprising truth: even in a liquid state, some atoms do not move at all. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Motionless atoms can trap liquid metal in a strange ...

Charge density waves are a central feature of many quantum materials and often coexist or compete with other electronic ...

The ice in your freezer is remarkably different from the single crystals that form in snow clouds, or even those formed on ...

For years, researchers have provided contradictory evidence about the “premelting film” of ice, its thickness and whether it ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

A computer model helped isolate a “pinball state” where matter switches back and forth between states. Scientists studied a ...