Researchers discover symmetry-breaking phase transitions after isotopic doping

A joint team, while exploring phase diagrams in dense H2–HD–D2 mixtures, has reported a new discovery in which they found counterintuitive effects of isotopic doping on the phase diagram of H2–HD–D2 molecular alloy.

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https://phys.org/news/2020-06-symmetry-breaking-phase-transitions-isotopic-doping.html