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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe _Phys. Rev. D_ 102, 065014 (2020) Phases of matter can often be classified by their broken symmetries. For instance, ferromagnets break

rotational symmetry by having a particular magnetization direction. Heating up the magnet causes thermal fluctuations that destroy the long-range magnetic order. It seems natural that this

symmetry restoration should happen once any system gets hot enough. Now, Noam Chai and co-workers have shown that some models defy this intuition. This is a preview of subscription content,

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