{"id":218122,"date":"2025-07-17T06:20:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/the-magic-of-magnons-material-properties-changed-non-thermally-using-light-and-magnons"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:20:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:20:39","slug":"the-magic-of-magnons-material-properties-changed-non-thermally-using-light-and-magnons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/the-magic-of-magnons-material-properties-changed-non-thermally-using-light-and-magnons","title":{"rendered":"The magic of magnons: Material properties changed non-thermally using light and magnons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-magic-of-magnons-material-properties-changed-non-thermally-using-light-and-magnons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result was a huge surprise for us. No theory has ever predicted it,\u201d says Davide Bossini.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does the process work\u2014it also has spectacular effects. By driving high-frequency <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnon<\/a> pairs via laser pulses, the physicists succeeded in changing the frequencies and amplitudes of other magnons\u2014and thus the magnetic properties of the material\u2014in a non-thermal way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery solid has its own set of frequencies: electronic transitions, lattice vibrations, magnetic excitations. Every material resonates in its own way,\u201d explains Bossini. It is precisely this set of frequencies that can be influenced through the new process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe result was a huge surprise for us. No theory has ever predicted it,\u201d says Davide Bossini. Not only does the process work\u2014it also has spectacular effects. By driving high-frequency magnon pairs via laser pulses, the physicists succeeded in changing the frequencies and amplitudes of other magnons\u2014and thus the magnetic properties of the material\u2014in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218122","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=218122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}