Fermi Volume (IMAGE)

Rice University

Fermi Volume

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A 'Fermi surface' is kind of three-dimensional map representing the collective energy states of electrons in a material. These computer-generated illustrations show how the Fermi surface for CeRhIn5 changes, depending upon whether the electrons are strongly interacting (left) or weakly interacting (right).

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CREDIT: Q. Si/Rice University and J.X. Zhu/Los Alamos National Laboratory

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