A magnetic crystal that was thought to behave like a quantum system, CeMgAl11O19, revealed something even stranger: a new ...

Researchers at Rice University report that cerium magnesium hexalluminate, a compound with the formula CeMgAl11O19, is not the quantum spin liquid it was long believed to be. In a peer-reviewed study ...

Magnetic materials in a quantum spin liquid phase are of great interest in the pursuit of exotic state of matter and quantum ...

Researchers were shocked to discover that what was thought to be a quantum state is actually an entirely new phase of matter.

The writer is senior vice-president for research, labs, technology and society at Google-Alphabet Quantum computing able to harness the subatomic world may seem like a distant prospect to some people.

A recent study, published in Science Advances and co-led by Rice University’s Pengcheng Dai, found that the material cerium ...