{"id":180388,"date":"2024-01-13T04:25:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T10:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/making-more-magnetism-possible-with-topology"},"modified":"2024-01-13T04:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T10:25:59","slug":"making-more-magnetism-possible-with-topology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/making-more-magnetism-possible-with-topology","title":{"rendered":"Making More Magnetism Possible with Topology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-more-magnetism-possible-with-topology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers who have been working for years to understand electron arrangement, or topology, and magnetism in certain semimetals have been frustrated by the fact that the materials only display magnetic properties if they are cooled to just a few degrees above absolute zero.<\/p>\n<p>A new MIT study led by Mingda Li, associate professor of nuclear science and engineering, and co-authored by Nathan Drucker, a graduate research assistant in MIT\u2019s Quantum Measurement Group and PhD student in applied physics at Harvard University, along with Thanh Nguyen and Phum Siriviboon, MIT graduate students working in the Quantum Measurement Group, is challenging that conventional wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>The open-access research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-40765-1\" target=\"_blank\">published in <em>Nature Communications<\/em><\/a>, for the first time shows evidence that topology can stabilize magnetic ordering, even well above the magnetic transition temperature \u2014 the point at which magnetism normally breaks down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers who have been working for years to understand electron arrangement, or topology, and magnetism in certain semimetals have been frustrated by the fact that the materials only display magnetic properties if they are cooled to just a few degrees above absolute zero. A new MIT study led by Mingda Li, associate professor of nuclear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180388","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}