{"id":208609,"date":"2025-03-13T13:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/reading-magnetic-states-faster-in-far-infrared"},"modified":"2025-03-13T13:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:09:53","slug":"reading-magnetic-states-faster-in-far-infrared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/reading-magnetic-states-faster-in-far-infrared","title":{"rendered":"Reading magnetic states faster\u2014in far infrared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reading-magnetic-states-faster-in-far-infrared3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With today\u2019s data rates of only a few hundred megabytes per second, access to digital information remains relatively slow. Initial experiments have already shown a promising new strategy: Magnetic states can be read out by short current pulses, whereby recently discovered spintronic effects in purpose-built material systems could remove previous speed restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at HZDR and TU Dortmund University are now providing proof of the feasibility of such ultrafast data sources. Instead of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrical+pulses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical pulses<\/a>, they use ultrashort <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/terahertz\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">terahertz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+pulses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light pulses<\/a>, thereby enabling the read-out of magnetic structures within picoseconds, as they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-57432-2\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now can determine the magnetic orientation of a material much quicker with light-induced current pulses,\u201d explains Dr. Jan-Christoph Deinert of HZDR\u2019s Institute of Radiation Physics. For their experiments, the physicist and his team employed light that is invisible to the human eye\u2014so-called terahertz radiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With today\u2019s data rates of only a few hundred megabytes per second, access to digital information remains relatively slow. Initial experiments have already shown a promising new strategy: Magnetic states can be read out by short current pulses, whereby recently discovered spintronic effects in purpose-built material systems could remove previous speed restrictions. Researchers at HZDR [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208609","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\/208609","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}