A 3D image of a supercrystal from phase-field simulations using the software ?-PRO.
Credit: L-Q Chen Group, Penn State
“Frustration” plus a pulse of laser light resulted in a stable “supercrystal” created by a team of researchers led by Penn State and Argonne National Laboratory, together with University of California, Berkeley, and two other national laboratories.
This is one of the first examples of a new state of matter with long-term stability transfigured by the energy from a sub-pico-second laser pulse. The team’s goal, supported by the Department of Energy, is to discover interesting states of matter with unusual properties that do not exist in equilibrium in nature.
“We are looking for hidden states of matter by taking the matter out of its comfortable state, which w...
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