Strontium Ruthenate Electronic Nematicity Research Team (IMAGE)

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Strontium Ruthenate Electronic Nematicity Research Team

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Brookhaven Lab scientists (left to right) Anthony Bollinger, Ivan Bozovic, Xi He, Ian Robinson, and Jie Wu of the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Division and collaborators at Cornell found evidence of an electronic 'liquid crystal' state in a superconductor called strontium ruthenate. In this exotic state, electrons flow in a preferred direction that is unexpected from the arrangement of atoms in the host material's crystal lattice.

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