'Third state of magnetism' could advance storage,superconducting

摘要

A multidisciplinary team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claims to have demonstrated the existence of a long-theorized state of magnetism, called quantum spin liquid (QSL), that could have eventual application in computer memory storage and high-temperature superconductors. QSL is a solid crystal, but the fluctuating magnetic orientations of its individual particles resemble the constant motion of molecules within a liquid.