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SUMMARY:Ross group paper published in PRL
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DTSTART: 2019-07-11 16:05:31 
UID:2026-07-06-12-14-52@natsci.colostate.edu
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Description:Evidence for Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Rare-Earth Magnet\
 nThe Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) state\, where almost of the particles 
 in a system “condense” into the lowest available energy state\, is a f
 ifth state of matter after solids\, liquids\, gasses\, and plasmas. Quantu
 m magnets are known to be able to host BECs of “triplons”\, which are 
 quasi-particles that exist only as a collective property of the magnetic s
 ystem\, when tuned by a magnetic field.  We have discovered evidence of a
  BEC phase in a rare-earth magnet\, Yb2Si2O7\, where Ytterbium (Yb) is the
  magnetic atom.  This is unexpected since for a BEC to exist in a magneti
 c system\, the interactions must be nearly isotropic. This requirement mak
 es BEC quite unexpected in Yb2Si2O7 since Yb is a heavy element\, which gi
 ves it inherent anisotropy in how it interacts with its neighbors in magne
 tic solids.   This discovery provides a new playground for understanding
  BEC in magnetic systems\, as well as how Yb breaks our expectations at lo
 w-temperatures in condensed matter systems.\n\nFind more information on th
 e PRL website.
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