{"id":630,"date":"2023-02-27T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=630"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:50:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:50:50","slug":"discovery-of-the-bubble-phase-of-composite-fermions-confirms-existence-of-a-new-family-of-quantum-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/Q1\/discovery-of-the-bubble-phase-of-composite-fermions-confirms-existence-of-a-new-family-of-quantum-matter","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of the \u2018bubble phase of composite fermions\u2019 confirms existence of a new family of quantum matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"purdue-initial-words-wrap\"><p class=\"purdue-initial-words wp-block-paragraph\">WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash;<\/p> \n<p>Like finding a hidden world, physicists dialing up the magnetic field on a semiconducting material have discovered the first in a new family of matter that flowers from the bizarre realm of the quantum scale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In what researchers dubbed the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-023-01939-2\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bubble phase of composite fermions<\/a>, pairs of quasiparticles align in a crystalline pattern, allowing electricity to flow along the edge of the material. The discovery represents a previously unobserved arrangement of composite fermions, which are entities that behave like particles and are formed from the interaction between electrons and magnetism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs the first member of a new family of highly correlated topological phases, this new phase expands our understanding and offers a glimpse of the role of electronic interactions in generating higher order correlations in electronic systems,\u201d said G\u00e1bor Cs\u00e1thy, a Purdue University professor and head of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.physics.purdue.edu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Physics and Astronomy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/research\/features\/stories\/discovery-of-the-bubble-phase-of-composite-fermions-confirms-existence-of-a-new-family-of-quantum-matter\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More information can be read on the Purdue University Office of Research website<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash; Like finding a hidden world, physicists dialing up the magnetic field on a semiconducting material have discovered the first in a new family of matter that flowers from the bizarre realm of the quantum scale. 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