A tall glass of ice water isn’t just a thirst quencher; it’s also an everyday example of coexisting phases. Water’s molecular makeup can exist simultaneously in both a liquid and solid phase. And as it turns out, this phase duality can exist in more exotic, quantum materials, and in ways that are far more complicated […] The post Physicists watch a material’s electrons assemble, and reassemble, into coexisting phases appeared first on MIT Physics .