Artificial intelligence is colliding with a hard physical limit: the energy and heat of today’s silicon-based chips. As ...

Controlling magnetization dynamics with a femtosecond laser is attracting interest both in fundamental science and in industry because of the potential to achieve magnetic switching at ever faster ...

An international team of researchers led by Lancaster University has discovered a highly efficient mechanism for shaking ...

Electrons inherently carry both spin and orbital angular momentum (i.e., properties that help to understand the rotating motions and behavior of particles). While some physicists and engineers have ...

Led by researchers at Lancaster University, the international team showed that subtle electronic effects can greatly amplify ...

Researchers have managed to visualize two distinct mechanisms in which magnetism can switch within antiferromagnetic ...

The reliability of data storage and writing speed in advanced magnetic devices depend on drastic, complex changes in microscopic magnetic domain structures. However, it is extremely challenging to ...

Spintronics -- based on the principles of electron charge and magnetic spin -- goes beyond the limits of conventional electronics. However, spintronic devices are yet to see advances, because ...

Like sailors and spelunkers, physicists know the power of a sturdy knot. Some physicists have tied their hopes for a new generation of data storage to minuscule knotlike structures called skyrmions, ...

Spin flips: physicists have magnetized water by spinning it at high speeds. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Inna Bigun) Physicists in the US have shown that rotating matter at high speeds can magnetize atomic ...

TPU researchers have studied how rare earth elements (REEs) with different concentrations affect the formation and properties ...