Yasuhide Tomioka

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Laser pulses align hidden electrical regions in a crystal

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Tiny islands of positive and negative charge sit inside a modified strontium titanate crystal. For decades, physicists argued about whether cooling the crystal creates those islands or simply lines up ones already there.

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