{"id":205399,"date":"2025-02-03T23:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/physicists-confirm-the-existence-of-a-third-form-of-magnetism"},"modified":"2025-02-03T23:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T05:25:14","slug":"physicists-confirm-the-existence-of-a-third-form-of-magnetism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/physicists-confirm-the-existence-of-a-third-form-of-magnetism","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Confirm The Existence of a Third Form of Magnetism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-confirm-the-existence-of-a-third-form-of-magnetism.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An experiment in Sweden has demonstrated control over a novel kind of magnetism, giving scientists a new way to explore a phenomenon with huge potential to improve electronics \u2013 from memory storage to energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Using <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Synchrotron\">a device that accelerates electrons<\/a> to blinding speeds, a team led by researchers from the University of Nottingham showered an ultra-thin wafer of manganese telluride with X-rays of different polarizations, to reveal changes on a nanometer scale reflecting magnetic activity unlike anything seen before.<\/p>\n<p>For a rather mundane chunk of iron to transform into something<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/energyexplained\/electricity\/magnets-and-electricity.php\"> a little more magnetic<\/a>, its constituent particles need to be arranged so that their unpartnered electrons align according to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-physicist-says-electrons-spin-in-quantum-physics-after-all-heres-why\"> a property known as spin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experiment in Sweden has demonstrated control over a novel kind of magnetism, giving scientists a new way to explore a phenomenon with huge potential to improve electronics \u2013 from memory storage to energy efficiency. Using a device that accelerates electrons to blinding speeds, a team led by researchers from the University of Nottingham showered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205399","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}