{"id":175921,"date":"2023-11-13T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-spin-with-high-harmonic-probes"},"modified":"2023-11-13T04:24:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T10:24:00","slug":"unlocking-the-secrets-of-spin-with-high-harmonic-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-spin-with-high-harmonic-probes","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the secrets of spin with high-harmonic probes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-spin-with-high-harmonic-probes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep within every piece of magnetic material, electrons dance to the invisible tune of quantum mechanics. Their spins, akin to tiny atomic tops, dictate the magnetic behavior of the material they inhabit. This microscopic ballet is the cornerstone of magnetic phenomena, and it\u2019s these spins that a team of JILA researchers\u2014headed by JILA Fellows and University of Colorado Boulder professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn\u2014has learned to control with remarkable precision, potentially redefining the future of electronics and data storage.<\/p>\n<p>In a <i>Science Advances<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adi1428\">publication<\/a>, the JILA team\u2014along with collaborators from universities in Sweden, Greece, and Germany\u2014probed the spin dynamics within a special material known as a Heusler compound: a mixture of metals that behaves like a single magnetic material.<\/p>\n<p>For this study, the researchers utilized a compound of cobalt, manganese, and gallium, which behaved as a conductor for electrons whose spins were aligned upwards and as an insulator for electrons whose spins were aligned downwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep within every piece of magnetic material, electrons dance to the invisible tune of quantum mechanics. Their spins, akin to tiny atomic tops, dictate the magnetic behavior of the material they inhabit. This microscopic ballet is the cornerstone of magnetic phenomena, and it\u2019s these spins that a team of JILA researchers\u2014headed by JILA Fellows and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175921","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}