News tagged with vortex field

Emerging from the vortex

Whether a car or a ball, the forces acting on a body moving in a straight line are very different to those acting on one moving in tight curves. This maxim also holds true at microscopic scales. As such, a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Physicists unveil a theory for a new kind of superconductivity

(PhysOrg.com) -- In this 100th anniversary year of the discovery of superconductivity, physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology have published a ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (31) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

A quick switch for magnetic needles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic vortex cores, which can be used as particularly stable storage points for data bits, can now be switched much faster.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Magnetic vortex memory shows memory potential of nanodots

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using magnetic nanodots in the vortex state, researchers have designed a new kind of non-volatile memory that could offer increased speed and density for next-generation non-volatile random ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

Magnetic mixing creates quite a stir (w/ Video)

Sandia researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2