There is now a new addition to the magnetic family: thanks to experiments at the Swiss Light Source SLS, researchers have proved the existence of altermagnetism. The experimental discovery of this new branch of magnetism ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 14, 2024
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a long-predicted magnetic state of matter called an "antiferromagnetic excitonic insulator."
Condensed Matter
Feb 22, 2022
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Be it with smartphones, laptops, or mainframes: The transmission, processing, and storage of information is currently based on a single class of material—as it was in the early days of computer science about 60 years ago. ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 10, 2020
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Researchers have successfully demonstrated a method to switch a novel material between two different nonvolatile states at very high speeds and with great accuracy. The physical constituents of the device in question are ...
General Physics
Apr 20, 2020
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Researchers at Mainz University have shown that information can be stored in antiferromagnetic materials and to measure the efficiency of the writing operation
Condensed Matter
Aug 25, 2020
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Imagine biting into a peanut butter sandwich and discovering a slice of cheese tucked between the bread and the butter. In a way, this is what happened to a team of physicists at the University of Arizona, except the "cheese" ...
Nanophysics
May 18, 2020
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Researchers at the Center for Correlated Electron Systems, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea, in collaboration with Sogang University and Seoul National University, reported the first experimental ...
General Physics
Jan 21, 2019
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Nanoscale vortices known as skyrmions can be created in many magnetic materials. For the first time, researchers at PSI have managed to create and identify antiferromagnetic skyrmions with a unique property: critical elements ...
Nanophysics
Sep 23, 2020
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Cornell researchers have put a new spin on measuring and controlling spins in nickel oxide, with an eye toward improving electronic devices' speed and memory capacity.
General Physics
Oct 23, 2019
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Antiferromagnets have generated significant interest for future computing technologies due to their fast dynamics, their ability to generate and detect spin-polarized electric currents, and their robustness against external ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 31, 2018
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