{"id":218108,"date":"2025-07-17T06:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/shedding-new-light-on-invisible-forces-hidden-magnetic-clues-in-everyday-metals-unlocked"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:07:11","slug":"shedding-new-light-on-invisible-forces-hidden-magnetic-clues-in-everyday-metals-unlocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/shedding-new-light-on-invisible-forces-hidden-magnetic-clues-in-everyday-metals-unlocked","title":{"rendered":"Shedding new light on invisible forces: Hidden magnetic clues in everyday metals unlocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shedding-new-light-on-invisible-forces-hidden-magnetic-clues-in-everyday-metals-unlocked.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists has developed a powerful new way to detect subtle magnetic signals in common metals like copper, gold, and aluminum\u2014using nothing more than light and a clever technique. Their research, recently published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, could pave the way for advances in everything from smartphones to quantum computing.<\/p>\n<p>For over a century, scientists have known that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+currents\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric currents<\/a> bend in a magnetic field\u2014a phenomenon known as the Hall effect. In <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic materials<\/a> like iron, this effect is strong and well understood. But in ordinary, non-magnetic metals like copper or gold, the effect is much weaker.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, a related phenomenon\u2014the optical Hall effect\u2014should help scientists visualize how electrons behave when light and magnetic fields interact. But at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/visible+wavelengths\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visible wavelengths<\/a>, this effect has remained far too subtle to detect. The scientific world knew it was there, but lacked the tools to measure it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists has developed a powerful new way to detect subtle magnetic signals in common metals like copper, gold, and aluminum\u2014using nothing more than light and a clever technique. Their research, recently published in Nature Communications, could pave the way for advances in everything from smartphones to quantum computing. For over a century, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218108","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=218108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}