Now You Will Seem Smarter

Just drop this into any cocktail-party conversation:

“Y’know, here’s a schematic evolution of the spin polarization of composite fermions as a function of the density. At large densities, the composite fermions are fully spin-polarized (all spinning in one direction). As the density is lowered below n = 4.2 × 10^10 cm^-2, the full spin polarization is lost (i.e. some composite fermions are spinning clockwise, and the rest are spinning counterclockwise). At even lower densities n = 3.51× 10^10 cm^-2, however, the composite fermions suddenly become fully spin-polarized (all spinning in one direction), signaling a Bloch-like transition. “

Pro tip: try not to speak too quickly — that tends to turn the hottest babes off.

Credit: Md Shafayat Hossain et al.

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