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IMAGE: You Lai (left) and Johanna Palmstrom (right) use the new duplex magnet at the Los Alamos MagLab Pulsed Field Facility. The same magnet was recently used for the first time. view more
Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 19, 2021 A recent series of experiments at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (National MagLab) at Los Alamos National Laboratory leveraged some of the nation s highest-powered nondestructive magnets to reveal an exotic new phase of matter at high magnetic fields. The experiments studied the unusual Kondo insulator ytterbium dodecaboride (or YbB12) and were the first results from the new 75-tesla duplex magnet housed at the National MagLab s Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos.