Yeah, that was what I read it as too. I know just a little about Mott insulators, but from what I know, this isn't a Mott insulator. All they're saying is that this is the kind of thing that happends in an MI, but for much different reasons. Instead of the wave being produced by the heat introduced, it's because of the inherent quantum fluctuations. That's like saying that since Coulomb's law looks just like the theory of gravity, that Coulomb didn't do anything special. (Or maybe it's not, I was never good at analogies...)
Yes, that's the way it works for the normal three, but I don't know that you can extend that definition to some of these new "states of matter". You can't exactly say that if you heated a BEC (Bose-Einstein Condensate) up, the energy would go into turning it into a solid, can you? (It wouldn't, it would sublimate (?) into a gas again, but that's not the point.) But that doesn't mean that it's not a new state of matter, (necessarily) it just means that the old definition can't be applied.
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Yeah, that was what I read it as too. I know just a little about Mott insulators, but from what I know, this isn't a Mott insulator. All they're saying is that this is the kind of thing that happends in an MI, but for much different reasons. Instead of the wave being produced by the heat introduced, it's because of the inherent quantum fluctuations. That's like saying that since Coulomb's law looks just like the theory of gravity, that Coulomb didn't do anything special. (Or maybe it's not, I was never good at analogies...)
Yes, that's the way it works for the normal three, but I don't know that you can extend that definition to some of these new "states of matter". You can't exactly say that if you heated a BEC (Bose-Einstein Condensate) up, the energy would go into turning it into a solid, can you? (It wouldn't, it would sublimate (?) into a gas again, but that's not the point.) But that doesn't mean that it's not a new state of matter, (necessarily) it just means that the old definition can't be applied.