{"id":245088,"date":"2026-10-09T02:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/this-strange-new-magnetism-could-change-how-computers-work"},"modified":"2026-10-09T02:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:39:25","slug":"this-strange-new-magnetism-could-change-how-computers-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/this-strange-new-magnetism-could-change-how-computers-work","title":{"rendered":"This Strange New Magnetism Could Change How Computers Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-strange-new-magnetism-could-change-how-computers-work3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An unusual magnetic state detected in a layered material could offer a new route to ultrafast memory and energy-efficient electronics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inside a crowded electronic circuit, stray magnetic fields can interfere with nearby components. Researchers developing faster, more efficient computers want to use electron spin, a quantum property, to carry information alongside electrical charge. That requires materials that can handle spin without creating unwanted magnetic interference.<\/p>\n<p>University of Central Florida physicist Madhab Neupane and his collaborators have found a promising candidate in Co\u2081\/\u2084TaSe\u2082, a layered material containing magnetic cobalt atoms. Their experiments detected signatures of altermagnetism, a form of magnetism that combines useful properties of ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual magnetic state detected in a layered material could offer a new route to ultrafast memory and energy-efficient electronics. Inside a crowded electronic circuit, stray magnetic fields can interfere with nearby components. Researchers developing faster, more efficient computers want to use electron spin, a quantum property, to carry information alongside electrical charge. That requires [\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-245088","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\/245088","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=245088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}