{"id":229072,"date":"2026-01-15T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/tuning-spin-waves-using-commercially-available-devices-at-room-temperature"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:25:07","slug":"tuning-spin-waves-using-commercially-available-devices-at-room-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/tuning-spin-waves-using-commercially-available-devices-at-room-temperature","title":{"rendered":"Tuning spin waves\u2014using commercially available devices at room temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tuning-spin-waves-using-commercially-available-devices-at-room-temperature.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicist Davide Bossini from the University of Konstanz has recently demonstrated how to change the frequency of the collective magnetic oscillations of a material by up to 40%\u2014using commercially available devices at room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have a full picture,\u201d Bossini says. For years, the physicist from the University of Konstanz has studied how to use light to control the collective magnetic oscillations of a material\u2014known as magnons. In the summer of 2025, he was finally able to show how to change the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-07-magic-magnons-material-properties-thermally.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">magnetic DNA<\/a>\u201d of a material via the interaction between light and magnons.<\/p>\n<p>He now demonstrates how the frequency of oscillations can be controlled quasi instantly and on demand by means of a weak magnetic field and intense laser pulses. In this way, he can increase or decrease frequencies by up to 40%. The effect is due to the interaction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-unexpected-oscillation-states-magnetic-vortices.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">optical excitation<\/a>, magnetic anisotropy (directional dependence) and the external magnetic field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicist Davide Bossini from the University of Konstanz has recently demonstrated how to change the frequency of the collective magnetic oscillations of a material by up to 40%\u2014using commercially available devices at room temperature. \u201cWe now have a full picture,\u201d Bossini says. For years, the physicist from the University of Konstanz has studied how to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229072","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=229072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}