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(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) HYPERUNIFORMITY

(NOVEMBER-2024)

HYPERUNIFORMITY

Researchers have explored the mechanism behind the emerging property of recently discovered exotic disordered state of matter, known as “hyperuniformity”.

About Hyperuniformity

Hyperuniformity is a property of certain heterogeneous media in which density fluctuations in the long-wavelength range decay to zero. Hyperuniform disordered materials have been observed in a variety of settings, such as in quasicrystals, large-scale structures of the universe, soft and biological emulsions and colloids, etc.
The mechanism responsible for the suppressed fluctuations in the hyperuniform systems explains the emerging properties of a recently discovered exotic disordered state of matter, known as “hyperuniformity”.

Features of Hyperuniformity

One of the most striking characteristics of such a state is that mass fluctuations are greatly suppressed as the system size grows. Indeed, it is strikingly opposite to what typically happens at the critical point of liquids
A hyperuniform matter near criticality, is one that falls somewhere between a perfect crystal, an amorphous solid and a liquid.