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“MAGNET, n. Something acted upon by magnetism." "MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet." "The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.” (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary). https://lnkd.in/eY_xwJvf View in LinkedIn

WINDOWS TO REALITY. “Although the number of materials exhibiting long-range multipolar ordered phases is presently relatively small, these materials are precisely the ones that permit mankind to study the baffling interplay of several exotic order parameters and unveil as yet unknown aspects of fundamental interactions.” https://journals.jps.jp/doi/full/10.7566/JPSJ.87.041008 View in LinkedIn

HALL EFFECT is a peculiar voltage difference in an electrical conductor under a magnetic field. The strange interactions of magnets and electric currents have many applications as well as being valuable tools for probing semiconductor materials. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect View in LinkedIn

HALL CONDUCTIVITY. “A new area, in which multipole moments recently gained importance, is that of the Hall conductivity in antiferromagnets.” https://journals.jps.jp/doi/full/10.7566/JPSJ.87.041008 View in LinkedIn

ARROW OF TIME. “The breaking of time-reversal symmetry could not unambiguously be established.” https://journals.jps.jp/doi/full/10.7566/JPSJ.87.041008 View in LinkedIn

BROKEN SYMMETRY. “A remarkable set of experiments led to the conclusion that the four-fold symmetry of the tetragonal basal plane is broken and that the HO is hence a “nematic” phase.” https://journals.jps.jp/doi/full/10.7566/JPSJ.87.041008 View in LinkedIn

METAMATERIALS. “The term "programmable matter" was coined in 1991, and we've been fascinated by the concept ever since. The eventual goal is to have microscopic machines that can rearrange their grouping, allowing them to take any form of our choosing."If I have a clump of clay made of thousands of millions of little dots, I push a button then the charges rearrange themselves to form a statue, a car, whatever you want". (Michio Kaku). https://lnkd.in/eXDXhP6Q View in LinkedIn

HIDDEN ORDER. “The mysterious hidden order (HO) phase of the heavy-Fermion URu2Si2 has drawn much attention in condensed matter physics during the last three decades.” https://journals.jps.jp/doi/full/10.7566/JPSJ.87.041008 View in LinkedIn

CORE COMPONENT. “Their optical properties are strongly governed by the response of meta-atoms – their elementary units.” https://lnkd.in/e5fJZNfb View in LinkedIn

A QUANTUM WORLD? “The spectacular successes of quantum physics have made it a commonplace to assert that we live in a quantum world. This idea seems to imply a kind of “quantum fundamentalism” according to which everything in the universe (if not the universe as a whole) is fundamentally of a quantum nature and ultimately describable in quantum-mechanical terms.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn