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Neutrons Verify New Quantum State
An international research team has proved the existence of spin-spirals in a quantum liquid.
Source: press release by Forschungszentrum Jülich, based on S. Gao et al., 2016: Spiral Spin-Liquid and the emergence of a vortex-like state in MnSc2S4; Nature Physics, Published online 24 October 2016, DOI:10.1038/nphys3914
An international research team has proved the existence of spin-spirals in a quantum liquid. They emerge at low temperatures from the magnetic moments ("spins") of manganese scandium thiospinel single crystals (MnSc2S4). Neighbouring spins fluctuate here collectively as spirals, but when spatial distances are involved, they do not take on any particular order, just as water molecules will only form structures with neighbouring water molecules. [more] [archive]