When water freezes into ice or boils into vapor, its properties change dramatically at specific temperatures. These so-called phase transitions are fundamental to understanding materials.

The team at The University of Tokyo studied a much rarer type of phase transition: from one liquid state to another. In this research, they found that, even without changing temperature ...

The discovery of cuprate high-temperature superconductors in 1986 ... These experimental results reveal that the observed quantum phase transition is universal in the bismuth-bearing cuprate ...

Large thermal changes can arise when phase transitions are driven by magnetic fields, electric fields or stress fields. These three effects arise in overlapping sets of materials, but have ...

Such calculations can then be used to create 3D velocity maps and calculate the mineralogy and temperature of the regions being observed. In these maps, a phase transition such as a change in a ...

can be the key to mapping out the low-temperature phase diagram of the FHM. To this end, realizing the antiferromagnetic phase transition and reaching the ground state of the FHM at half-filling ...

Researchers at PSI have observed for the first time how tiny magnets in a special layout align themselves solely as a result of temperature ... "Magnetic phase transitions had been theoretically ...

More Brookhaven National Laboratory In the new study, the researchers have shown that the "forbidden" phase transition can be achieved only at a very narrow range of temperatures. And thus ...

Richter and colleagues then defined a phase transition point to be the “apparent temperature” at which half of the penguins are in a huddle. The apparent temperature is a combination of temperature, ...