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The Universe in a solid design

A new material designed from first principles and subsequently synthesized and characterized in the laboratory may shed light on why there is much more matter than antimatter in the Universe.

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Figure 1: A solid-state experiment to search for an EDM.
Figure 2: The elementary lattice of Eu0.5Ba0.5TiO3.

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Budker, D. The Universe in a solid design. Nature Mater 9, 608–609 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2809

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