{"id":247097,"date":"2026-11-11T07:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T13:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/scientists-discover-new-way-to-control-magnetic-waves-for-future-quantum-technologies"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T13:19:07","slug":"scientists-discover-new-way-to-control-magnetic-waves-for-future-quantum-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/scientists-discover-new-way-to-control-magnetic-waves-for-future-quantum-technologies","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover new way to control magnetic waves for future quantum technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Ames National Laboratory have discovered a way to control the handedness of magnons, tiny magnetic waves that can carry information through materials. By changing the material\u2019s magnetic state with an external magnetic field, they were able to switch magnon behavior, a finding with potential applications in quantum information and quantum computing technologies. Their findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/n1x2-mzzx\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Magnons are excitations\u2014tiny waves of magnetic motion traveling through magnetic materials\u2014that trace paths in a right-handed or left-handed direction, like a spinning top moving clockwise or counterclockwise. Because <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-05-scientists-potential-electron-transmit-quantum.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">magnons<\/a> provide a means to transmit energy and information without moving electrical charge, scientists are exploring them as potential building blocks for future high-efficiency computing applications.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best places to study magnon handedness is in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-ferrimagnet-bosonic-semiconductors.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">ferrimagnets<\/a>, a class of materials that naturally host both right-and left-handed magnons. Ferrimagnets contain two different types of magnetic atoms whose magnetic moments point in opposite directions. Because the sizes of their magnetic moments are unequal, they do not entirely cancel each other out. This allows scientists to investigate how the two different types of magnons interact within a given material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Ames National Laboratory have discovered a way to control the handedness of magnons, tiny magnetic waves that can carry information through materials. By changing the material\u2019s magnetic state with an external magnetic field, they were able to switch magnon behavior, a finding with potential applications in quantum [\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-247097","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\/247097","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=247097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}