"New Exotic State of Matter Discovered through Subatomic Particle Compression"
Physicists have discovered a new state of matter called a "bosonic correlated insulator," which takes the form of a highly ordered crystal of subatomic particles. The discovery could lead to the creation of many new types of exotic materials made from condensed matter. The researchers used a lattice of tungsten disulfide and tungsten diselenide to create the new state of matter by pushing excitons together until they were so densely packed that they could no longer move. This is the first time this new state of matter has been created in a "real" matter system, providing new insight into the behavior of bosons.
