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Electrons in condensed matter have internal degrees of freedom, such as charge, spin, and orbital, leading to various forms of ordered states through phase transitions. However, in individual materials, a charge/spin/orbital ordered state of the lowest temperature is normally uniquely determined in terms of the lowest‐energy state, i.e., the ground state. Here, recent results are summarized showing that under rapid cooling, this principle does not necessarily hold, and thus, the cooling rate is a control parameter of the lowest‐temperature state beyond the framework of the thermoequilibrium phase diagram. Although the cooling rate utilized in low‐temperature experiments is typically 2 × 10 −3  to 4 × 10 −1  K s −1 , the use of optical/electronic pulses facilitates rapid cooling, such as 10 2 –10 3  K s −1 . Such an unconventionally high cooling rate allows some systems to kinetically avoid a first‐order phase transition, resulting in a quenched charge/spin state that differs from the ground state. It is also demonstrated that quenched states can be exploited as a non‐volatile state variable when designing phase‐change memory functions. The present findings suggest that rapid cooling is useful for exploring and controlling the metastable electronic/magnetic state, which is potentially hidden behind the ground state.

Quenching of Charge and Spin Degrees of Freedom in Condensed Matter