{"id":215486,"date":"2025-06-06T05:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/physicists-observe-a-new-form-of-magnetism-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:12:22","slug":"physicists-observe-a-new-form-of-magnetism-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/physicists-observe-a-new-form-of-magnetism-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Physicists observe a new form of magnetism for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-observe-a-new-form-of-magnetism-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT physicists have demonstrated a new form of magnetism that could one day be harnessed to build faster, denser, and less power-hungry \u201cspintronic\u201d memory chips.<\/p>\n<p>The new magnetic state is a mash-up of two main forms of magnetism: the ferromagnetism of everyday fridge magnets and compass needles, and antiferromagnetism, in which materials have magnetic properties at the microscale yet are not macroscopically magnetized.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the MIT team has demonstrated a new form of magnetism, termed \u201cp-wave magnetism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT physicists have demonstrated a new form of magnetism that could one day be harnessed to build faster, denser, and less power-hungry \u201cspintronic\u201d memory chips. The new magnetic state is a mash-up of two main forms of magnetism: the ferromagnetism of everyday fridge magnets and compass needles, and antiferromagnetism, in which materials have magnetic properties [\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-215486","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\/215486","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=215486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}