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Decoding nanomaterial phase transitions with tiny drums Date: March 16, 2025 Source: Delft University of Technology Summary: When water freezes into ice or boils into vapor, its properties change ...

Phase transitions, like water freezing into ice, are a familiar part of our world. But in quantum systems, they can behave even more dramatically, with quantum properties such as Heisenberg ...

Furthermore, various spurious effects can cause the systems to lose, or dissipate, energy to the environment. When they happen, theses “dissipative phase transitions” (DPTs) push quantum systems into ...