Striped or checkered? Magnetic field influences competing electronic patterns in a graphene-like quantum material
Researchers at OIST and Hiroshima University have shown that a small magnetic field switches the graphene-like quantum material CeTe₃ between competing electronic patterns — striped and checkerboard. Scanning tunneling microscopy revealed the transformation near absolute zero, driven by electronic frustration coupled to magnetism. The findings, published in Nature Communications, offer a new strategy for controlling collective electronic states in quantum materials with poten
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