{"id":116631,"date":"2020-12-03T23:23:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T07:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/magnetism-does-the-twist-skyrmions-10000-times-thinner-than-a-human-hair-could-advance-high-density-data-storage"},"modified":"2020-12-03T23:23:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T07:23:15","slug":"magnetism-does-the-twist-skyrmions-10000-times-thinner-than-a-human-hair-could-advance-high-density-data-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/magnetism-does-the-twist-skyrmions-10000-times-thinner-than-a-human-hair-could-advance-high-density-data-storage","title":{"rendered":"Magnetism Does the Twist: Skyrmions 10,000 Times Thinner Than a Human Hair Could Advance High-Density Data Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetism-does-the-twist-skyrmions-10000-times-thinner-than-a-human-hair-could-advance-high-density-data-storage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists discovered a strategy for layering dissimilar crystals with atomic precision to control the size of resulting magnetic quasi-particles called skyrmions. This approach could advance high-density data storage and quantum magnets for quantum information science.<\/p>\n<p>In typical ferromagnets, magnetic spins align up or down. Yet in skyrmions, they twist and swirl, forming unique shapes like petite porcupines or tiny tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p>The tiny intertwined magnetic structures could innovate high-density data storage, for which size does matter and must be small. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led project produced skyrmions as small as 10 nanometers \u2013 10,000 times thinner than a human hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists discovered a strategy for layering dissimilar crystals with atomic precision to control the size of resulting magnetic quasi-particles called skyrmions. This approach could advance high-density data storage and quantum magnets for quantum information science. In typical ferromagnets, magnetic spins align up or down. Yet in skyrmions, they twist and swirl, forming unique shapes like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}