{"id":181825,"date":"2024-02-01T06:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T12:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/researchers-discover-new-ways-to-excite-spin-waves-with-extreme-infrared-light"},"modified":"2024-02-01T06:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T12:22:29","slug":"researchers-discover-new-ways-to-excite-spin-waves-with-extreme-infrared-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/researchers-discover-new-ways-to-excite-spin-waves-with-extreme-infrared-light","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover new ways to excite spin waves with extreme infrared light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-new-ways-to-excite-spin-waves-with-extreme-infrared-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As demands for computing resources continue to increase rapidly, scientists and engineers are looking for ways to build faster systems for processing information. One possible solution is to use patterns of electron spins, called spin waves, to transfer and process information much more rapidly than in conventional computers. So far, a major challenge has been in manipulating these ultrafast spin waves to do useful work.<\/p>\n<p>In a significant leap forward, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and MIT have developed a pioneering method to precisely manipulate these ultrafast <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/spin+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spin waves<\/a> using tailored <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+pulses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light pulses<\/a>. Their findings are detailed in two studies in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, led by MIT graduate student Zhuquan Zhang, University of Texas at Austin postdoctoral researcher Frank Gao, MIT\u2019s professor of chemistry Keith Nelson and UT Austin assistant professor of physics Edoardo Baldini.<\/p>\n<p>A key component underlying our smartphones, the internet and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cloud+computing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cloud computing<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+data\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic data<\/a> recording technology for storing and retrieving vast amounts of information. This technology hinges on the manipulation of the magnetic spin states (up and down) in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ferromagnetic+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ferromagnetic materials<\/a>, representing the binary bits \u201c0\u201d and \u201c1.\u201d These spins are minuscule magnets, whose alignment determines the material\u2019s magnetic properties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As demands for computing resources continue to increase rapidly, scientists and engineers are looking for ways to build faster systems for processing information. One possible solution is to use patterns of electron spins, called spin waves, to transfer and process information much more rapidly than in conventional computers. So far, a major challenge has been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181825","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}