{"id":211236,"date":"2025-04-12T05:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-new-frontier-in-spintronics-antiferromagnetic-quasicrystals-unveiled"},"modified":"2025-04-12T05:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T10:20:36","slug":"a-new-frontier-in-spintronics-antiferromagnetic-quasicrystals-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-new-frontier-in-spintronics-antiferromagnetic-quasicrystals-unveiled","title":{"rendered":"A new frontier in spintronics: Antiferromagnetic quasicrystals unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-frontier-in-spintronics-antiferromagnetic-quasicrystals-unveiled3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quasicrystals (QCs) are fascinating solid materials that exhibit an intriguing atomic arrangement. Unlike regular crystals, in which atomic arrangements have an ordered repeating pattern, QCs display long-range atomic order that is not periodic. Due to this \u2018quasiperiodic\u2019 nature, QCs have unconventional symmetries that are absent in conventional crystals.<\/p>\n<p>Since their Nobel Prize-winning discovery, condensed matter physics researchers have dedicated immense attention toward QCs, attempting to both realize their unique quasiperiodic magnetic order and their possible applications in spintronics and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+refrigeration\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic refrigeration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ferromagnetism was recently discovered in the gold-gallium-rare earth (Au-Ga-R) icosahedral QCs (iQCs). Yet scientists were not surprised by this observation because translational periodicity\u2014the repeating arrangement of atoms in a crystal\u2014is not a prerequisite for the emergence of ferromagnetic order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quasicrystals (QCs) are fascinating solid materials that exhibit an intriguing atomic arrangement. Unlike regular crystals, in which atomic arrangements have an ordered repeating pattern, QCs display long-range atomic order that is not periodic. Due to this \u2018quasiperiodic\u2019 nature, QCs have unconventional symmetries that are absent in conventional crystals. Since their Nobel Prize-winning discovery, condensed matter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211236","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=211236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}