{"id":233628,"date":"2026-03-19T03:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/terahertz-spin-waves-can-be-converted-into-computer-signals-study-shows"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:24:21","slug":"terahertz-spin-waves-can-be-converted-into-computer-signals-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/terahertz-spin-waves-can-be-converted-into-computer-signals-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Terahertz spin waves can be converted into computer signals, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/terahertz-spin-waves-can-be-converted-into-computer-signals-study-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What will the computers of tomorrow look like? Chances are good that spintronics will play a decisive role in the next generation of computers. In spintronics, the intrinsic angular momentum of an electron (the spin) is used to store, process and transmit data. This technology is already in use today, for example in hard drives. However, the scope of what is possible extends much further: More recent approaches aim at using not just individual spins, but entire spin waves made up of partly hundreds of trillions of spins. Such collective spin excitations are known as magnons. They could enable extremely energy-efficient data transmission\u2014even in the terahertz range.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good. But how can these spin waves be coupled to today\u2019s technology? \u201cIf we develop a concept to perform computer calculations with magnons, it must be compatible with the technology we currently use,\u201d says physicist Davide Bossini from the University of Konstanz. \u201cTo reach this goal, you have to convert the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-08-loss-energy-principle-enable-ultra.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">spin wave<\/a> into an electrical charge signal.\u201d This spin-to-charge conversion is one of the major challenges of spintronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will the computers of tomorrow look like? Chances are good that spintronics will play a decisive role in the next generation of computers. In spintronics, the intrinsic angular momentum of an electron (the spin) is used to store, process and transmit data. This technology is already in use today, for example in hard drives. [\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-233628","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\/233628","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=233628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}