{"id":233963,"date":"2026-03-24T03:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/electric-current-stabilizes-spins-at-unstable-points-for-new-types-of-computing"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:31:11","slug":"electric-current-stabilizes-spins-at-unstable-points-for-new-types-of-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/electric-current-stabilizes-spins-at-unstable-points-for-new-types-of-computing","title":{"rendered":"Electric current stabilizes spins at unstable points for new types of computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electric-current-stabilizes-spins-at-unstable-points-for-new-types-of-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team has discovered a new way to control tiny magnetic properties inside materials using electric current, which could possibly pave the way for new types of computing technologies. The work is based on spintronics, a field that uses not only the electric charge of electrons but also their \u201cspin,\u201d a quantum property that can be thought of as a tiny magnet.<\/p>\n<p>Spintronics is already used in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-05-based-memory-advance-brain-closer.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">magnetic random access memory<\/a> (MRAM), a type of memory that keeps data even when the power is turned off. This is different from conventional memory, which loses information without electricity.<\/p>\n<p>In MRAM, data is stored depending on whether spins point \u201cup\u201d or \u201cdown.\u201d These two stable states are separated by an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-11-magnetic-memory-device-power-consumption.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">energy barrier<\/a>, which helps keep the data secure. However, this stability also makes it harder to switch between states, requiring strong electric currents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team has discovered a new way to control tiny magnetic properties inside materials using electric current, which could possibly pave the way for new types of computing technologies. The work is based on spintronics, a field that uses not only the electric charge of electrons but also their \u201cspin,\u201d a quantum property that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233963","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=233963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}