{"id":227751,"date":"2025-12-24T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/why-a-chiral-magnet-is-a-direction-dependent-street-for-electrons"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:31:00","slug":"why-a-chiral-magnet-is-a-direction-dependent-street-for-electrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/why-a-chiral-magnet-is-a-direction-dependent-street-for-electrons","title":{"rendered":"Why a chiral magnet is a direction-dependent street for electrons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-a-chiral-magnet-is-a-direction-dependent-street-for-electrons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RIKEN physicists have discovered for the first time why the magnitude of the electron flow depends on direction in a special kind of magnet. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/sciadv.adw8023\" target=\"_blank\">This finding<\/a> could help to realize future low-energy devices.<\/p>\n<p>The work is published in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>In a normal magnet, all the spins of electrons point in the same direction. In a special class of magnets known as chiral magnets, the electron spins resemble a spiral staircase, having a helical organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIKEN physicists have discovered for the first time why the magnitude of the electron flow depends on direction in a special kind of magnet. This finding could help to realize future low-energy devices. The work is published in the journal Science Advances. In a normal magnet, all the spins of electrons point in the same [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227751","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=227751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}