{"id":204794,"date":"2025-01-29T03:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/a-third-type-of-magnetism-altermagnetism-named-top-physics-breakthrough-of-2024"},"modified":"2025-01-29T03:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:14:36","slug":"a-third-type-of-magnetism-altermagnetism-named-top-physics-breakthrough-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/a-third-type-of-magnetism-altermagnetism-named-top-physics-breakthrough-of-2024","title":{"rendered":"A Third Type of Magnetism? Altermagnetism Named Top Physics Breakthrough of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-third-type-of-magnetism-altermagnetism-named-top-physics-breakthrough-of-2024.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science and research continuously deliver groundbreaking discoveries, expanding the boundaries of what we know. Each year, the renowned journal <em>Science<\/em> highlights ten of these achievements in its list of top scientific breakthroughs. For 2024, the journal named the drug lenacapavir \u2014 hailed for its potential to reduce HIV\/AIDS infections to zero \u2014 as the Breakthrough of the Year. In the realm of physics, another major milestone was recognized: the discovery of altermagnetism by researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a truly unique tribute to our work, and we are proud and honored to receive this acknowledgment for our research,\u201d said Professor Jairo Sinova of the JGU Institute of Physics. He and his team discovered and demonstrated the phenomenon of altermagnetism.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, physics recognized only two types of magnetism: ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. Ferromagnetism, known since ancient Greece, is the force that makes refrigerator magnets stick, where all magnetic moments align in the same direction. Antiferromagnetism, on the other hand, involves magnetic moments aligning in a regular pattern but pointing in opposite directions, canceling each other out externally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science and research continuously deliver groundbreaking discoveries, expanding the boundaries of what we know. Each year, the renowned journal Science highlights ten of these achievements in its list of top scientific breakthroughs. For 2024, the journal named the drug lenacapavir \u2014 hailed for its potential to reduce HIV\/AIDS infections to zero \u2014 as the Breakthrough [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204794","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=204794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}