Striped or checkered? Magnetic field influences competing electronic patterns in a graphene-like quantum material

Researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and Hiroshima University have discovered that a small magnetic field switches the layered quantum material CeTe₃ between competing electronic states that appear as striped or checkerboard patterns. Published July 23 in Nature Communications, the work reveals how magnetism can reorganize a quantum material’s entire electronic state.

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