{"id":201900,"date":"2024-12-19T03:10:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T09:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/physicists-magnetize-a-material-with-light-terahertz-technique-could-improve-memory-chip-design"},"modified":"2024-12-19T03:10:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T09:10:31","slug":"physicists-magnetize-a-material-with-light-terahertz-technique-could-improve-memory-chip-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/physicists-magnetize-a-material-with-light-terahertz-technique-could-improve-memory-chip-design","title":{"rendered":"Physicists magnetize a material with light: Terahertz technique could improve memory chip design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-magnetize-a-material-with-light-terahertz-technique-could-improve-memory-chip-design2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT physicists have created a new and long-lasting magnetic state in a material, using only light.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08226-x\" target=\"_blank\">a study<\/a> that appears in <i>Nature<\/i>, the researchers report using a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/terahertz+laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">terahertz laser <\/a>\u2014a light source that oscillates more than a trillion times per second\u2014to directly stimulate atoms in an antiferromagnetic material. The laser\u2019s oscillations are tuned to the natural vibrations among the material\u2019s atoms, in a way that shifts the balance of atomic spins toward a new magnetic state.<\/p>\n<p>The results provide a new way to control and switch <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/antiferromagnetic+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">antiferromagnetic materials<\/a>, which are of interest for their potential to advance information processing and memory chip technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT physicists have created a new and long-lasting magnetic state in a material, using only light. In a study that appears in Nature, the researchers report using a terahertz laser \u2014a light source that oscillates more than a trillion times per second\u2014to directly stimulate atoms in an antiferromagnetic material. The laser\u2019s oscillations are tuned to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201900","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=201900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}