Evidence of a quantum phase transition without symmetry breaking in cerium-cobalt-indium 5

"We initially started studying this material with a completely different focus, mainly on critical scaling phenomena in resistivity measurements," Nikola Maksimovic, the lead author of the paper, told Phys.org. "Over the course of about three years, we noticed that our data seemed to point to rapid changes in the material's properties induced by small amounts of chemical substitution. Such a transition was hinted at in previous measurements."