{"id":237730,"date":"2026-05-26T02:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/new-three-dimensional-magnetic-structure-discovered-with-laser-light"},"modified":"2026-05-26T02:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:20:23","slug":"new-three-dimensional-magnetic-structure-discovered-with-laser-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/new-three-dimensional-magnetic-structure-discovered-with-laser-light","title":{"rendered":"New three\u2011dimensional magnetic structure discovered with laser light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-three-dimensional-magnetic-structure-discovered-with-laser-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flashes of femtosecond laser light, lasting just a few trillionths of a second, have made it possible to observe new magnetic structures for the first time. By using light as a remote control, researchers were able to switch magnetism into previously unseen three-dimensional states at the nanoscale.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetism is often imagined as something simple, pointing in one direction or another. At very small scales, however, magnetism can behave in far more complex ways. Magnetism originates from a quantum property of electrons known as spin, which can be thought of as a tiny internal compass carried by each electron. When many spins interact inside a solid material, they can organize into stable patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flashes of femtosecond laser light, lasting just a few trillionths of a second, have made it possible to observe new magnetic structures for the first time. By using light as a remote control, researchers were able to switch magnetism into previously unseen three-dimensional states at the nanoscale. Magnetism is often imagined as something simple, pointing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237730","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=237730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}