News tagged with magnetic moments

Imaging with neutrons: Magnetic domains shown for the first time in 3-D

Although they exist in almost every magnetic material, you cannot see them: magnetic domains are microscopically small regions of uniform magnetization. Dr. Ingo Manke and his group at the Institute of Applied ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists cross hurdle in quantum manipulation of matter

Finding ways to control matter at the level of single atoms and electrons fascinates many scientists and engineers because the ability to manipulate single charges and single magnetic moments (spins) may help ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Probing spin liquids with a new pulsed-magnet system

Entirely new experimental vistas could be opened by a device called a precursor pulsed-magnet system developed by an international team of scientists. This system can generate magnetic fields as high as 30 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First direct observation of unusual magnetic structure could lead to novel electronic, magnetic memory devices

In conventional ferromagnets, the individual magnetic moments of the atoms that together comprise the magnetism of the material are all aligned parallel, pointing in a common direction. In ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Researchers design more reliable invisibility cloak

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have proposed a new design for an invisibility cloak - a device that could make objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside the cloak.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (33) | comments 24 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists create carbon magnetism by removing atoms from graphite

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have found that, by removing individual atoms from a graphite surface, they can create local magnetic moments in the graphite. The discovery could lead to techniques to artificially ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (47) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

In Brief: Exploring the limits of antiferromagnetism in nanostructured materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group (Argonne National Laboratory) and at Politecnico di Milano in Italy explored the limits of antiferromagnetism in a nanostructured ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Magnetic monopoles detected in a real magnet for the first time

Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre Berlin, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, St. Andrews, La Plata and Oxford, have for the first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (51) | comments 38

Scientists discover magnetic superatoms

A team of Virginia Commonwealth University scientists has discovered a 'magnetic superatom' - a stable cluster of atoms that can mimic different elements of the periodic table - that one day may be used to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (27) | comments 7

Electric Switches Hold Promise for Data Storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Multiferroics are materials in which unique combinations of electric and magnetic properties can simultaneously coexist. They are potential cornerstones in future magnetic data storage and ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1


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