Hastatic order

Hastatic order is a fundamental way of breaking double "time-reversal" symmetry. It is present in the heavy-fermion compound URu2Si2. This order was dubbed hastatic from hasta, the Latin word for "spear". Its cycle is twice as complex as magnetism.

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