Some universes can stay perfectly organized even if you heat them up to an infinite temperature.
April 2, 2026
Original Paper
Infinite Heat Order in 3+1 Dimensions
arXiv · 2604.01184
The Takeaway
In our daily experience, heat creates chaos, melting solids and breaking order. This study identifies specific theoretical models where a type of 'ordered' state actually persists forever as things get hotter, creating an 'infinite heat order' that defies standard thermodynamics.
From the abstract
We investigate whether spontaneous symmetry breaking can persist up to arbitrarily high temperature in ultraviolet-complete quantum field theories in four spacetime dimensions. We focus on completely asymptotically free models with gauge group $\mathrm{SU}(N_{c1})\times \mathrm{SU}(N_{c2})$ and two complex scalar fields, each transforming in the fundamental representation of one gauge factor and singlet under the other. The scalar potential contains quartic self-interactions together with a nega