Moire (IMAGE)

Florida State University

Moire

Caption

This artwork shows the coexistence of the electron crystalline phase and exotic quantum liquid phase. The middle stream represents the exotic fractional quantum hall liquid and the dots on the two sides organizing in a periodic way represents the electron crystal.

Credit

Courtesy of Michael Hurley and Sampson Wilcox/Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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